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Combining DevOps and Agile Transformations to Achieve Business Outcomes

Agile Velocity

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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InfoQ Podcast About Remembering Jerry Weinberg

Johanna Rothman

During Agile 2018, Jerry Weinberg died. How to read and review other people’s work in Handbook of Technical Reviews. Take Jerry’s leadership into your thinking and you might surprise yourself. Shane Hastie and I had already agreed to do a recording of some sort while at the conference. Yes, I was quite emotional.

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11 Books To Read As A Product Manager

Bain Public

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading!

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My Top 5 Reads for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Our leadership team had just started reading it and wanted all of the product managers to read it too. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan This is basically the best handbook on product management that I’ve ever read. They asked if anyone had read it already, and I was the only one.

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The Perfect World and the Real World of Product Research

The Product Coalition

Mini-research means following agile and pragmatic research principles when time is limited and resources are scarce. SWOT Lightning Round: Organise a SWOT brainstorming session with key stakeholders from leadership, research, customer service, design, and engineering. So let’s talk about mini-research.

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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

My student Eric Ries became the first adopter of Customer Development and recognized that in the 21st century, people were starting to adopt Agile Engineering, where you build products incrementally and iteratively. Customer Development, Agile Engineering, and the Business Model Canvas became the Lean Startup.

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Are you cut out for Product Management?

BrainMates

The over-focus on Agile rituals such as Standups, Sprint Planning and Retros has meant that we have forgotten the commercial aspects of our role. Being a Product Manager is a leadership role, not an order-taker role. The core of our Product Manager roles is how value is exchanged. Shy away from taking initiative?