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Advice for successfully leading a distributed development team

The Product Coalition

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. We had successfully released our new feature to hundreds of thousands of users, after what seemed like an eternity?—?ten Why is the vision important? You’re all part of a team.

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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

For example, the owner of a persistence service has to be able to describe its interfaces or APIs and converse with the users—the development team members who use the service. I regard feature and component owners as members of a product team , a group of product people who collaboratively manage a larger product.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Instead, I respond, “How can your team function without one?” They certainly don’t serve to dictate every move a team should make. Contrary to popular belief, their primary purpose isn’t to guide the team.

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