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When 2 Become 1: The Roles of Product Manager and Product Owner

bpma ProductHub

Since the Agile Manifesto first distinguished the roles in 2001, the same person has often been expected to serve as both PM and PO. Jennifer Gridley, MBA is a business strategist, change agent and storyteller who has held a variety of corporate leadership roles, most recently in Product Marketing at athenahealth, Inc.

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4 Tips to Adapt Agile Product Management to Your Team’s Processes

Amplitude

It’s one of the most widely used and trusted frameworks for the modern technology company. Debuted in the 2001 Agile Manifesto , the Agile method was created in response to outmoded software practices that didn’t scale with changing technology. Tips for Adapting the Agile Framework: Encourage Experimentation. Trust Your Team.

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Why designers fail to integrate into Agile teams

UX Planet

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. Scrum is an Agile framework that puts a lot of emphasis on speed and efficiency. The problem has never been Agile but the rigidity of some of its frameworks. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio. Scrum invented those.

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357: 5 steps for prioritizing product features – with Kareem Mayan

Product Innovation Educators

Helping us is someone who’s been prioritizing customer feedback professionally since 2001. This framework lets you narrow down a big list of features, but there’s still a lot of art involved in the process. [7:07] Often, I see leadership not giving clear direction to the product team about what to build. [9:52]

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have a framework which promotes rapid feedback cycles and adaptation, they created what we know today as Scrum. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) encourages this misconception of a strategic Product Manager role and a tactical Product Owner role.

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What strong teamwork looks like: 7 proven models

Atlassian

Authors and business leaders Frank LaFasto and Carl Larson invested a lot of research into the model that they developed in 2001, studying the work of hundreds of team members and leaders to understand what made successful teams tick. Team leadership: the team needs not only the right members, but also the right leader in place.

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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. This is the reason the lean framework works well with helping teams be agile. Beware of Echo Chambers and Silos People new to product leadership may fall into the Echo Chamber trap.

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