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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. Assess Your Product Subject Matter Domain Expertise There are at least two kinds of domain expertise: the product itself, and agile/lean expertise.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 6, Create Your Agile Approach

Johanna Rothman

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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Adaptive Mindset ‘Hats’ Your Product Manager Wears

BrainMates

With no university degree course or global certification standards, most practitioners step into being a PM from areas like Engineering & Agile Operations. Making things even less straightforward is that each Product Manager will likely have a different combination of skills.

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Modus Create is Now an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner

Modus Create

Atlassian awards this title to consultants that meet their highest training criteria and have a proven practice that can scale from small to large customers. In Atlassian’s words, Platinum Solution Partners are Atlassian advisors, consultants, trainers, and thought leaders, whose value goes far beyond product expertise.

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What is the BizOps Career Path?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

This is different than a consultant who may suggest solutions for big or small problems and then leave. Hard skills are proficiencies, abilities or certifications that are learned or earned through work in the professional world. A degree or certification is considered a hard skill. BizOps are part of the company itself.

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What You Do Is Who You Are: The Four Types of Product Managers

The Product Coalition

How often do you consult market surveys? Meanwhile, if they’ve read the Lean Startup, have a certification, spend their days tagging JIRA tickets, painstakingly created a product roadmap based on user votes without talking to anyone, and have a spreadsheet with RICE columns per JIRA ticket… they’re a plain-Jane-boring-old-builder.

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. In early days, when many of the creators of these processes were working as consultants in companies, the Product Owner was the customer – an internal person in the business who would sit with the team and prioritize the backlog of work.