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  What is agile product management? How do we define agile product management? It is a product development philosophy that emphasizes a flexible and human — rather than a rigid process- or tool-oriented — approach to defining product strategy and carrying out work. Teammates focus heavily on customer feedback to make improvements and adjust roadmaps throughout the product management process. This creates more responsive teams, leads to quicker iterations, and creates a more lovable experience overall. Benefits of agile product management Agile redefines how product managers think about planning and building products. Traditionally, new customer experiences were planned, designed, implemented, and tested in a step-by-step way. This meant that new functionality was delivered sequentially. Once requirements were defined and handed off to the development team, it was difficult to make any changes. The failure rate of large-scale and lengthy software development proj...

  Guide to agile retrospectives for continuous improvement An agile retrospectives is an opportunity for agile development teams to reflect on past work together and identify ways to improve. Agile teams hold retrospective meetings after a time-boxed period of work is complete (typically a sprint lasting two to four weeks). During the agile retrospective, the team discusses what went well, what did not go as planned, and how to make the next work period better. Even if you are not on a development team, you can probably relate to the concept of retrospection. Have you ever worked hard on something only to realize later that you should have done it differently? It is not always a good feeling, but the solutions you uncover in hindsight can be valuable input for your next try. The same goes for your successes — acknowledging what went well and is worth repeating can be just as impactful. What is an agile retrospective? In short, an agile retrospective is a meeting...