Tue.Nov 22, 2016

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Should Product Owners be Servant-Leaders?

Roman Pichler

What Is Servant-Leadership? Servant-leadership means that “one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead,” writes Robert Greenleaf , the creator of the servant-leadership model. Servant-leaders want to “make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served” so that they “become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous.”.

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How to turn a story point factory into a customer-centric team?

Mind the Product

The one spontaneous ovation at this year’s London MTPCon was when Drift CEO David Cancel muttered “I hate agile” as an aside while he was on stage. Agile, a revolutionary idea 10 years ago, has clearly lost its shine for many people. However, almost all the product teams I know use some agile methods, and they are certainly great tools to break down mega projects into manageable parts, to bring back flexibility to the development process or make it easier to estimate resources.

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Podcast: Organizational Anthropology

Mironov Consulting

Karthik Vijayakumar’s Design Your Thinking podcast brings in a range of product and design thinkers to talk about their hot topics. He generously included me for a long discussion about organizations, incentives and motivating other functional groups — an episode that we labeled “ Organizational Anthropology and Product Management.” Some takeaways: Different groups (sales, marketing, product, engineering and executive leadership) have their own success metrics, filters a

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How Professional Services Automation (PSA) Supports Business Transformation

TSIA

It’s no surprise that services organizations rely more and more on various technologies to successfully run their businesses. Recent research shows that planned spending and adoption of Professional Services Automation solutions is on the rise, and has become a must-have technology for most business stakeholders within services organizations. PSA provides automation in core business areas along with the information necessary to make important business decisions in real-time.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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The Friction Points in Going Digital

TIBCO - Thought Leadership

Digital business is no longer just a hot topic, it has become the top priority for many organizations. This change isn’t going to happen without friction. Companies big and small are being pushed by competitive forces and cost to adapt their products, services, and even their core business model to a more modern marketplace. Customers are found through digital means—often the focus of digital hype—but so are shipping partners, parts suppliers, and everyone else in the supply chain.