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The Definition of Product Management Is Shrinking. It’s Not Good!

Product Management University

In other words, the agile development process is redefining what we call product management. Go Upstream One of the biggest culprits of poor agile execution is the lack of clear value targets that start with product planning and ripple their way into UX design and development. Here are a few pointers.

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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. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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Here’s Why Your Customer Success Strategy Needs Data Science

Gainsight

While some may think of Terminator, HAL from Odyssey 2001, or Data on Star Trek, the products of data science have very realistic uses and are deeply embedded in our everyday lives. developer acumen to deliver them. But, this can be challenging if your company lacks strong internal alignment across teams. Business Acumen.

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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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Forget Methodologies, Focus on Customers

Modus Create

In a free market, successful companies that become complacent or comfortable with their share of the market, who don’t carefully consider the needs of the customer, become less competitive over time. There has never been a greater rate of change for customer expectations, the landscape of the market, and what is technically possible.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

There’s much uncertainty, but it’s likely that for a number of years markets will cool down, investments will dry up, customers will clamp down on spendings, and lots of people will be unemployed. For most companies it’s bad news?—?the the markets dry up, and things that worked before stop working. Then we can follow with ideas?

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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 ). As the name the “Brand Men” suggest the origins of Product Management was truely in marketing.