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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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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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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 ). McElroy wrote a short memo where he described “Brand Men” who had overall responsibility for the brand and managing of a product.

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. So you have field, inside, BDRs (business development representatives), ADRs (account development reps), CSMs (customer service Managers), etc all these acronyms that we all know.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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The 5 Skills Of An Innovator | Bob Moesta, The ReWired Group | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Thing is I’ve learned a lot about how to develop products. All right, here’s the thing: this is this is where I learned actually waterfall but if this is the product development right. And so what you realize is that in the system developed they were doing 10 times the prototypes we were. I’m an engineer.