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Deconstructing Being Agile

The Product Coalition

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Blindly adopting Agile is not a guarantee that a team will be agile , as these additional Agile rules are not essential to being agile. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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What strong teamwork looks like: 7 proven models

Atlassian

Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team. 5-second summary.

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Agile at Scale – Outcome Driven (or Broken)

Tyner Blain

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the Google, still just a scale-up in 2001, managed to come out stronger from the dot com bust and made a successful IPO in 2004. If you’ve been reading my articles in the past you know the system I’m alluding to?—? These teams work towards business goals? But not for all.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). In fact they decided to broaden the scope of the role by bringing it closer to the team and customers?—?this

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Idea Validation?—?Much More Than Just A/B Experiments

The Product Coalition

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

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Design Challenges: Designers Demand Reform as Unfair Tasks Miss the Mark (part II)

UX Planet

Table of contents (part I) To read the first part of the article click here 1. As highlighted in this article, design work is multifaceted and often requires considering various aspects. Why other businesses do not ask for a design challenge and still their design teams succeed? Background context 2. Methodology 3. Findings 4.