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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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Co-Located vs. Remote/Distributed Teams: What Works and Why

The Product Coalition

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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How to Organize Your Product Team Around Your North Star

Amplitude

How to organize your team is one of the most important decisions a product leader makes because how your organization is designed determines how it performs. Once you’ve defined your North Star—the key measure of success for the product team—we recommend structuring your team into autonomous groups to drive that outcome for your business.

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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. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Every day, I lead a product standup for a team of four engineers: Syrian, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Singaporean Chinese.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Speak the customer’s language.

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Seeing Around Corners | Rita McGrath | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

Do you empower small, agile teams? They formed in 2010. And I’m not saying that’s good or bad. I’m saying if you’re looking out for those weak signals you can see them a lot more. She is also one of the most regularly published authors in the Harvard Business Review. Upcoming Events.

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STICKY POST: All Talks From Business of Software Conferences in One Place

Business of Software Conference

Mikey Trafton: How To Manage Your Badass Team. Bethany Pagels-Minor: The Many Flavors Of Agile – What’s The Right One For Your Team? Alison Coward: Designing High-Performing Teams. Wade Foster: Building Operating Cadence With Remote Teams. Jane Austin: 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team.