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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

At Hewitt, I was a Business Analyst on the TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Nalco Team. As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. About Magdaline Derosena. More About The Product Mentor. Better Decisions. Better Products.

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Barry O’Reilly: Learning to Unlearn

Mind the Product

He’s coached executive teams at Capital One, International Airlines Group, HSBC, Google, and Amazon, to name a few. After this, he moved to London to join Thoughtworks, because he “wanted to work with really great engineering people”. The success of Lean Enterprise gave him the impetus to set up on his own.

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4 tips to improve code quality

Atlassian

The estimated costs in damage of this downtime included $60 million in long-distance charges; 200,000 lost airline reservations; and 75 million missed phone calls. Just one line of poorly written code can drive an enterprise into the ground, meaning that your projects can also come to an end because of them. Related Article.

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All the Awesome Speakers for #mtpcon SF 2017

Mind the Product

Before becoming an investor Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks. Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Product Design Engineering, Oculus.

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Let’s Fire a Few of Our Customers

Mironov Consulting

In the enterprise space, sales are lumpy and a couple of deals may represent most of this quarter’s new revenue. Product Management and UX/Design and Engineering should be following these folks around – interrogating them as necessary – to figure out ways to get the job done more easily. Up and to the right!

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

“The digital transformation of any enterprise is a herculean task requiring a willingness to embrace cultural change, the ability to immerse the entire organization in the customer journey, and a total commitment to digitize to the core”?—? CSSSR is a large outsource team of IT-engineers working hard yet completely remotely across the world.

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