PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? We've got your covered.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. When leadership asked them to make a decision they got stuck in spin cycles because they didn’t know what they were trying to achieve. Eventually leadership would lose patience and make the decision, perpetually continuing the empowerment disillusionment cycle.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Now, how do you do that?

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The OKR framework can inspire teams and bring focus to an entire company. . Environments which embrace Agile principles find an affinity with OKRs due to the way the methodology sets success criteria, emphasizes learning, and allows teams to establish solutions. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” Implement the Google OKR framework This is, by far, the best decision we made. The purpose of this framework is to help the entire organisation stay aligned with a common objective everyone understands.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

So Shopify’s Director of Product, Brandon Chu, developed a framework to streamline that decision-making process. But I’ve always been fascinated with Spotify’s famous squad, tribe, Survivor-esque sounding setup—especially as agile becomes status quo for product orgs, and more companies shift to this specific engineering culture.

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