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Cargo Cult Agile

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t In my experience, Scrum?—?like

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Introvert's Secret Weapon for Commanding a Room (And Turning Conflict into Growth)

People-First Product Leadership

It always makes me smile when I recall organizing team events and finding myself standing on a chair or table and calling everyone back from a break. Share Master emotional agility and shift annoyance into opportunity Ever had a colleague do something that gets on your nerves? The trick is to read the room.

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How do you solve your product problems?

Business of Software Conference

He is a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, organizer, and participant in product management, agile, UX, and innovation events around the world. You can do that right here: Upcoming Events. He leads the Boston Product Management Association and is a head judge at the annual Harvard Business School New Venture Competition.

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Jake Knapp convinced me to run a design sprint

Product Warrior

The event was going well, then I realised it was time for the design sprints talk - I thought "maybe a chance to catch up on the mountain of emails growing from being out of the office". I had misunderstood the concept and confused it with agile principles. The team includes the CEO and CTO providing executive level support.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Sarah Varki Product Owner, Sonicbids.

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How I Use Gainsight PX as a SaaS CEO

Gainsight

Companies had to rethink product development to embrace Agile and DevOps. While planning an event. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. CEOs need to change too. The move to the cloud and to software-as-a-service (SaaS) models changed a lot of things about business.

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2019 Goals Gone off the Rails? 3 Ways to get Back on Track

Mind the Product

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). improving presentation skills and speak at more/bigger/higher-profile events. Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!).

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