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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

He emphasizes that these activities vary based on context (large vs. small organizations, B2B vs. B2C, Agile vs. Waterfall). He emphasized the importance of role clarity and how the lack of it often leads to frustrated product managers leaving their positions.

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TEI 289: Become an agile leader of product management – with Roman Pichler

Product Innovation Educators

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. 2:00] What is agile product management? Agile product management is product management infused or enriched by agile practices and principles. We don’t have any positional authority or transactional power.

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Positive Trends in Product Management

The Product Guy

positive trends? Agile and lean organization product managers are getting good at dealing with ambiguity and are open to unknown situations. From The Best Product Person of 2016, Chris Butler, …. Looking Forward. > > What trends do you see in product management? any negative trends?

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366: This is modified Agile for hardware development – with Dorian Simpson and Gary Hinkle

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. Today we are talking about using a modified version of Scrum for hardware projects.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

Agile was a grassroots engineering movement that caught most software leaders unprepared. The Agile community was confident that management would recognize the benefits of Agile and adopt its servant-leadership style. Agile has been impeded by retention of Waterfall release planning practices and schedule pressure.

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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." We've come a long way but we still have far to go.