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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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Ten UX/UI Design Challenges That Can Compromise Financial Apps

The Product Coalition

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. Facing a company funding deadline, we pivoted to a new market with more potential.

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Aligning Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers for Success – Interview With Aatir Abdul Rauf

Userpilot

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. What are the typical roles and responsibilities of product managers and product marketing managers?

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Product Breaking Point To Breakthrough: How To Drive Successful Product Reviews

The Product Coalition

Or as ordinary a day in a large company gets… during COVID. Yet I could still see the tension on the team’s face and almost feel the hesitance in the air even though we were all separated by significant distance — no one wanted to be there. I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings.

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What Do We Owe Our Teams?

Mironov Consulting

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last If you’re running some other department, these should sound familiar.)

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Collocation, Trust, and Distributed Teams

Roman Pichler

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.