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Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product Talk

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. As an individual contributor, you’re focusing on your own projects and progress, but as a leader you are now responsible for the team (or teams) that report up to you. Trevor explains, “The leadership team felt like discovery was ‘taking too long.’

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Progress Reports in Project Management: Definition, Process & More

Userpilot

Having to write progress reports may seem like a nuisance with all the other things you have to do, but they’re essential to ensure smooth project delivery. TL;DR Progress reports provide information about the status of the project: the work completed, work still to be done, and potential challenges.

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Commentary on 14th Annual State of Agile Report ? Part 1.

Agile Velocity

The eagerly anticipated 14th Annual State of Agile Report was published earlier this week, and like previous publications, there are some fantastic insights. The top benefits of adopting Agile in this report are fairly consistent with recent years. Rate of Adoption – A Decade(ish) Comparison. Benefits of Agile.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management. Or non-software companies — where IT is squeezed as a cost center instead being the company’s main profit center. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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The Two Most Impactful 2020 Product Management Trends

Alchemer Mobile

While we could chat top product management tools and technologies all day, we believe organizational changes will have the largest impact on this industry in 2020. Due to rapidly-changing technology, customers have high expectations for the products they use. When something is broken, they expect an immediate fix.

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5 Truths Every Product Leader Should Know

Split

Because features are the new tool of measurement, it requires us to change the way we develop. Experian , a credit reporting agency that aggregates information for over 1 billion people, is now leveraging feature management. It’s no longer enough for software developers and product teams to track performance at an application level.

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The Perfect World and the Real World of Product Research

The Product Coalition

In the perfect world, there is time not just to talk to people but to observe them, immerse in their lives, and co-design solutions with them. However, it also often happens that in-depth research takes a lot of time and ends with a report so detailed that it becomes unhelpful and overwhelming. The perfect world does not exist, though.