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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

1] Product Portfolio, Product Family, and Product Line—What’s the Difference? A product portfolio is a group of products. These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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Leveraging Software Platforms

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates.

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Build vs. Buy: When to Buy Software or Build It Yourself

Alchemer Mobile

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. One-tap registration with Facebook), you’re already using third-party software. It thus becomes less a matter of “Can we do it?”

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Build vs. Buy: When to Buy Software or Build It Yourself

Alchemer Mobile

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. . One-tap registration with Facebook), you’re already using third-party software. It thus becomes less a matter of “Can we do it?”

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Calendar Reviews

Mironov Consulting

My product leader coachees and I sometimes do calendar reviews.  We for body breaks, hoping that no one will notice It’s also bound up in company culture.  At  At our company, can anyone grab open time on my calendar without asking me first?  Can  Can the executive team?  Are