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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” Maybe 2003? See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). And you don't have to use an agile approach to use an iteration. ” (I wrote this in Manage It! ) It's often a week or more.

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Product Management is Culture Management

Mind the Product

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Our engineers and designers can come from anywhere, yet everything we learn about product management focuses on teams that consist mostly of white Westerners. It simply doesn’t work.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

I am ready to provide business leaders and product managers the information, access, and expert guidance that they wish they had earlier in their product journey. Banff Interactive Screen 2003, Banff, Canada Flash Forward 2002, San Francisco, U.S. Interested in having me speak or attend an event? Reach out to me. About Paul Ortchanian.

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A Better Problem Statement Template

Tyner Blain

In 2003, Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach by Leffingwell and Widrig (p.101) Scaled Agile shares a narrative, free-form approach (figure 4) for problem statement writing. Ad hoc narrative structure doesn’t help, so I don’t encourage product managers to use it. In practice, it does not.”

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Product Innovation with Rick Robinson, VP Product AARP Innovation Labs

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

In this Path to PM post, Rick and I discuss breaking into product management and how he ended up working in an innovation lab at AARP. How has the product management role evolved for you over time? Before long, I was being called a “product manager," sort of before there were even official online product manager roles.

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Let go of past success to achieve extraordinary results by Barry O’Reilly

Mind the Product

Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong, all experienced SARS in 2003 and MERS in 2012, Barry tells us. Discover what other product people and organisations are doing during the disruption of COVID-19: An Agile Project to Enable Social Distancing: a Case Study by Katarzyna Malecka. Further Reading.

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Top 9 Web Design Company in 2023

UX Studio

2 – Parachute Design Canada-based boutique web designing company specializing in website design, SEO, custom logo design, and branding since 2003. Parachute Design is a website design company, founded by Jay Eckert in 2003. They value transparency, effective communication, and attention to detail.