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Reorganizing Product Teams

Mironov Consulting

Engineering). And recently, a product leader at Spotify shared that her group (and many others throughout her company) have evolved to very different organizational models than described in Henrik Kniberg’s 2012 Scaling Agile @ Spotify. Not surprisingly, the general answer is “it depends ” on lots of factors. What’s A Better Approach?

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

Engineering and Product are written off as intellectual time-wasters. We spin up outbound marketing/support efforts too early. Engineering concept validation” ( NON-REVENUE ). Stakeholders keep expanding the definition of ‘done’, since we can’t ship a real revenue product without features A, B, C, X, Y and Z.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

We look at the death of the 10 blue links and why Google is now an answer engine as opposed to a search engine. And that got me started thinking about this concept of search engines and that’s where it all came from. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

If you want to build a revenue engine that will fuel long-term growth, you need to build and scale your sales org with intention. Why not simply invest in hiring more engineers and let the targeted end-user virally adopt the product of their choice? Is your model primarily inbound or outbound?

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Userpilot Integrations: How Userpilot Gets Along with Your Tech Stack

Userpilot

apps, products, APIs, devices) connect, allowing you and your team to be more efficient, productive, and agile. As we mentioned early, building integrations between apps can take weeks of custom work when led by your engineering team if you don’t have streamlined third-party integrations already set in place for the apps you use.

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productboard Portal closes the gap between product teams and their customers

ProductBoard

With Salesforce for sales, Marketo for marketing, Zendesk for support, JIRA for engineering, and Workday for human resources, it could be lamented that product managers are the last business function to get a dedicated solution of their own. productboard Portal engages your product community in a whole new way.

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Empathy -- Lead with your EARS and not with your MOUTH

Bain Public

As a Product Manager you are then asked to plan timing, align resources and direct the engineering team to execute. At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility. Engineers will estimate wrongly. Your office community (executives, sales, or engineering teams, etc.) That’s project management. Be the CRO.