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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering.  (I mostly see this proposed by technical leaders who come from non-revenue development organizations – those building software for internal use by companies in another business such as banking or airlines).

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4 tips to improve code quality

Atlassian

They wanted to speed up long-distance calls, leading them to release a complex software upgrade. 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. That’s why improving your code quality is necessary.

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Boeing Product Managers Struggle To Come Back From The 737 MAX Disaster

The Accidental Product Manager

Boeing’s product managers need to find ways to rebuild trust Image Credit: Ferry Octavian. Every product manager job is different. Right now, being the product manager at Boeing who is responsible for the 737 MAX jet would defiantly fall into the difficult category. Some are easy and some are hard.

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5 Key Responsibilities of a Product Owner

ProductPlan

Teacher/plumber/airline pilot: So, what do you do? Teacher/plumber/airline pilot: Me too! Teacher/plumber/airline pilot: Someone pays you to own products? Even the job title product manager, which is also misunderstood, is more intuitive. Even the job title product manager, which is also misunderstood, is more intuitive.

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

Today, people want to be able to manage their finances entirely online, a feature not every bank is currently able to provide. Both managers and developers should be familiar with the specificity of working with banking products and understand how to organize work with clients in a way that ensures results, without wasting time.

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??Shep Hyken on getting customers to come back again and again

Intercom, Inc.

I talked to a number of people and asked them, “If every airline took away the miles and you couldn’t get those free trips anymore, would you continue to fly on that airline?” ” Now, he is the CEO of a major hair salon, a franchisor, and I was hired to speak to over a thousand franchisees and their managers.

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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

Lisa was a product manager we featured in a Product in Practice called Tackling Big Hairy Product Challenges with Continuous Discovery and in Chapter 13 of the book. Lisa now works for a company called Human API, where she’s a Senior Product Manager. Metrics are also included in the meetings due to popular demand.