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Who is Marty Cagan: Background, Books, Product Management Tips, and More

Userpilot

He is perhaps most recognized for his influential work as a consultant, writer, and speaker on product management, particularly within the realm of software and technology companies. Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), a consultancy firm that helps companies build successful products.

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How to Make Sure Your Product Leadership Team Will Boost You Up - Not Drag You Down

Bain Public

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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Combining DevOps and Agile Transformations to Achieve Business Outcomes

Agile Velocity

DevOps is the practice of software development (Dev) engineers and of IT operations (Ops) working together during a product’s entire lifecycle, from design through development to production support, in order to shorten the total lead time (from concept to cash) and to provide predictable delivery of high-quality products.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. 566 global ratings.

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8 Tips for Collaborating with Development Teams

Roman Pichler

Be aware that collaboration requires leadership. Aim to build consensus with the development team, but don’t shy away from difficult conversations. In the worst case, people get fed up with trying to get hold of you or waiting for an answer and stop consulting you. Don’t be mad with the team if the sprint goal is missed once.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

Strategy documents and presentations are not thought-leadership handed down by the product manager from on high, but used as a discussion point in order to get consensus amongst a variety of stakeholders: engineering, sales, marketing, business development, executive management, and so on. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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The Ultimate Guide to Product Management for SaaS – SaaS Product Management explained by 10 SaaS PMs

Userpilot

Making updates to on-premise software takes longer than SaaS because it involves having the customer install updates in-house. For that reason, on-premise products typically follow a waterfall approach to software development with longer release cycles to minimize the number of upgrades the customer needs to make.