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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Methodology is Right For Your Project?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? So what are the differences?

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To MRD or not to MRD.

The Product Bistro

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. The leadership team asked for a formal Market Requirements Document to help their decision process.

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Setting a UX Budget? Answer These 6 Questions First.

UX Planet

So, how do you ensure that UX gets its due in terms of investment? It also helps in saving on directionless development costs. For example, You’re looking to design a brand-new product from scratch — your roadmap will contain a time-bound list of objectives, their success metrics, and the plan for when the team will accomplish them.

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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When to Declare Backlog Bankruptcy

ProductPlan

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently. They develop new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than their rivals do in R&D and marketing, and they invest in assets such as plants and machinery.” Of course not. These teams work towards business goals?

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node, Angular, Ember, React etc.