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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. And, great agile teams often have HR support near the team, if not part of the team. See Your Current Organization.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value

bpma ProductHub

Agile Conference, IEEE Conference Publications (2009): 333-337. Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis. EBG Consulting. Enabling Specification: The Key to Building Agile Systems.” Her most recent book, co-authored with Mary Gorman, is Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis.

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Our Q2 FY22 letter to shareholders

Atlassian

All Atlassian’s ITSM competitors are monolithic solutions that start at half a million dollars and need an army of consultants to get started. Agile development. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. We needed something that would scale with us today.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

I graduated with a degree in finance, I didn’t want to work at a bank. That wasn’t my, I don’t know, I just got a degree in finance because I felt like I could I was good at it. We don’t we’re not we don’t follow agile methodologies, we don’t follow a bunch of different ways of doing things.