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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

What is Bad Performance? Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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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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Timeline of 20 Common Product Development Activities

The Product Coalition

How long an activity takes can have a huge impact on success or the perception of success when developing products. More often than not, teams are overly optimistic on the timeline that will be required to complete an activity. You can put unnecessary pressure on your team. You might design your organisation or team poorly.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. How to combat the challenges that arise between these two teams. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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How to Know if You Have A Healthy Software Development Team?

The Product Coalition

But not every product person understands how programming works and whether their team is having a healthy delivery. What should I follow in the day-to-day of a development team? First, they focus on what the team does rather than the result the team generates. What does DevOps mean to teams?

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The Product Manager Development Framework I Never Had

The Product Coalition

I’ve been on a journey when it comes to PM development frameworks. The Product Manager Development Framework I Never Had was originally published in Product Coalition on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. The amount of bad data causes teams to waste valuable time during their workflow, and decreases their number of targeted prospects.

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UX and Design Tips for Better Dashboards: Product Manager Laura Klein Explains How to Improve Your Analytics

Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups

That's why Laura Klein, product manager and UX designer, has a set of tips to help application teams improve their embedded dashboards and reports. You'll learn: How to develop products that boost your business's bottom line while dramatically improving customer experience. No one makes poorly designed products on purpose.