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What is Good Product Strategy?

Melissa Perri

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan. To create a backend system that will allow the sales team to manage their leads.” “To YOU NEED A STRATEGY.”

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Best-rated Sacramento Web Design Companies to Work With in 2022

UX Studio: Product Management

He gathered a team of like-minded design enthusiasts to shape the future of digital design and innovation. Our dedicated UX teams have successfully handled over 250 collaborations with clients from different industries worldwide. Apart from helping clients with product design, we also develop digital products in-house.

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Building with Shape Up

Crafty CTO

We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. In effect, we are saying: “Here you go, dev team. ” Traditional agile, let’s say Scrum for example, looks a bit different: “OK dev team! This post will focus on Shape Up’s approach to building. And shipping!)

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

How do you motivate and lead a team when the future is uncertain? I will talk about managing through good times and bad times so don’t worry there will be good times before I get to the bad stuff. Being British we like a bit of bad news. But my personal journey is a developer to CEO. We had high relevance.