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Why designers fail to integrate into Agile teams

UX Planet

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. Desperate to find an alternative to our ineffective process, I stumbled upon Agile and it blew my mind. I was used to creating the entire experience of a product, with complex and detailed features. Guess what? It never did.

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Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup

Mind the Product

Despite the successes Agile has brought us, it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on. Like the technology we use to build the products we love ages and gets left behind, Agile has died while we were perfecting our standup. We are in a post-Agile world and the terrain has changed.

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My Experience Transitioning From Engineering to Product Leadership

ProductPlan

I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. From that success, I was then officially asked to move into the product role by the product leadership, and I have not looked back since then. Anyone can learn agile product development , basics of software design and development lifecycle, etc.

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16 Product Manager Skills For SaaS Product Management

Userpilot

Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. They enable PMs to apply their hard skills effectively.

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Level two increases empowerment by adding the authority to determine the features and user experience the product should offer. 3] Level 2: Product Discovery Level-two empowerment means that you determine the product features and user experience. See also my article Decoding Product Leadership for more information. [7]

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6 Product Leadership Interview Questions and Answers

ProductPlan

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . 6 Product Leadership Interview Questions to Ask. In my experience, these are six of the most common questions that get asked.

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Insights from the #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum – Part 1

Mind the Product

Held in the lovely Barbican Conservatory , this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum brought together a group of senior product leaders for the type of conversations that can only happen behind closed doors. Agile is not a Strategy. Talk to people about money, user experience and how you’ll make it happen.