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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. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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What a Pre-PMF Startup Should Look Like

The Product Coalition

In the beginning of June 2020, we had enough cash to sustain ourselves for 2 years, and had decided to pivot. In the end, a pre-product-market fit startup’s only job is to find product-market fit (PMF), and therefore to explore different solutions as smartly and efficiently as possible.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). A friend of mine told me there was a call center job in a tech startup for Dutch speakers, and I just fell in love with the fast-paced, exciting environment.

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Close.com’s Steli Efti on balancing competition and collaboration in sales

Intercom, Inc.

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. It’s a timely conversation for us, coming hot on the heels of the release of our book Intercom on Sales last month and Steli’s own book The 2020 Startup Sales Playbook this week.

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Decisions, Debt, and Other Dilemmas by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

In this keynote from #mtpengage Manchester 2020 , Janna Bastow , co-founder of ProdPad and Mind The Product, discusses how in tech, optimising debt is essential to building the perfect product. While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. Get team members to perform a series of tasks on each.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

At the close of 2020, when we’re on the brink of entering a new decade, we thought it’d be a good time for a little history lesson. Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled.