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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. Sure, if a team reduces its feedback loops, the team will learn faster. In addition, more frequent customer and internal feedback can help create a better product.

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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

In the very early days of Intercom the marketing hat fell on my head, but I’d be doing marketing a disservice (and 2011 Des a disservice) if I said that’s what I thought I was doing. If you read an Intercom blog post or met me at a conference around 2011-12, you probably received an email from me at some point. Pitching your product.

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Adaptability in Software Development Must be Powered by Informed Action

Split

Data, not opinions, and experiments, not surveys, are what put teams into a virtuous feedback loop towards greater success. In 2011, Martin Reeves and Mike Deimler wrote a piece for the Harvard Business Review on the theme of managing uncertainty (aka change), titled Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage.

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Lawrence of Arabia, the Original Agile Disruptor, Had Sore Feet

The Product Coalition

they have to be, the roots haven’t developed yet. The “Lean Startup” Eric Ries put a taxonomy behind what it means to be a highly mobile learning organization with his 2011 book. The startups and product development groups I’ve been a part of follow the “lean startup” approach closely…I believe most startups do nowadays.

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What Friedrich Hayek can tell us about Product Management

The Product Coalition

In 2011, his article “ The Use of Knowledge in Society ” was selected as one of the top 20 articles published in The American Economic Review during its first 100 years. Since the article was first published in 1945, it has had a deep influence reaching far outside the field of economics.

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Building the Future of Digital Technology News with Richard MacManus

DISQO

ReadWriteWeb was sold to SAY Media in December 2011 and Richard left the site in October 2012. I ran ReadWriteWeb from 2003 until I sold it at the end of 2011. So that’s been an exciting development as well. The post Building the Future of Digital Technology News with Richard MacManus appeared first on Feedback Loop.

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Building the Future of Digital Technology News with Richard MacManus

DISQO

ReadWriteWeb was sold to SAY Media in December 2011 and Richard left the site in October 2012. I ran ReadWriteWeb from 2003 until I sold it at the end of 2011. So that’s been an exciting development as well. The post Building the Future of Digital Technology News with Richard MacManus appeared first on Feedback Loop.