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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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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

The dueling complaints are: Sales: “Product never seems to get us the right information at the right time in enough detail that we can confidently answer our customers’ questions.  Info  Sales teams inundate us with urgent-but-repetitive ‘does product X do thing Y?’

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Ten UX/UI Design Challenges That Can Compromise Financial Apps

The Product Coalition

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Information silos: what are they, and how do you prevent them?

Nulab

Picture this: you’re working on a project with a team of people located in different parts of the world. Even though you’re all working towards the same goal, it can feel like you’re in your own little world, disconnected from the rest of the team. So, how can you prevent information silos from happening?

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How Warehouse Management Systems Help to Increase Efficiency by 25% and More

The Product Coalition

A warehouse management system will help to organize the workflow effectively. What is a warehouse management system? A warehouse management system combines software, specific devices (for example, data collection terminals with a scanner), and IoT sensors to track inventory information.

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Product Development Health Check Playbook

The Product Coalition

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. Read on for the Product Development Health Check Playbook written by Angus McDonald and Kayla Li.

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Why Product Request SLAs Fail

Mironov Consulting

But if this is a nearly-universal problem – systemic across companies and industries – there must be something more fundamental happening.  It   Note that forcing all of these requests into one system-of-record doesn’t reduce the number of items …  280 tickets/week merged into Aha!