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Continuous Improvement: How It’s Important for Software Developers

The Product Coalition

Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Thus, custom software development and engineers face the same challenges faced by the market demand. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Unlike traditional approaches to software development, Scrum does not offer the role of a project manager.

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TEI 332: Optimizing Scrum in remote teams – with Howard Sublett, Scrum Alliance

Product Innovation Educators

The name of this podcast is changing to Product Mastery Now, to better reflect our purpose of helping product managers becoming product masters, gaining practical knowledge, influence and confidence so you’ll create products customers love. . Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology and there is a good chance you are using it.

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Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement Agile turns into micromanagement as a result of the middle management’s resistance to change. Update 2020–10–11: I added new content, updated the ‘State of Agile Checklist,’ and fixed some content debt. Do you want to get articles like this one on agile micromanagement in your inbox?

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Product Manager vs Product Owner: The Simple Distinction

Product Management University

In the world of agile software development, the product manager vs product owner confusion is hardly new. This problem has existed as long as software and product managers have been around. It merely has a new name. Traditional or agile, it’s necessary regardless of who does it, their title or how it gets done.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 5, Origins of Agile Approaches

Johanna Rothman

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Preston Smith and Don Reinertsen published Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools in 1998.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Methodology is Right For Your Project?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. What is Agile?