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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. become a professional services/custom consulting company. There’s no ongoing support model.  When  We can accidentally (but rapidly!)

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

The senior manager has P&L (Profit and Loss) responsibility for the entire product line, including Product Management (for this product line), Customer Support, Training, etc. I am using the word serve as in servant leadership. So that the senior manager can decide on the mix of products and services as a product line.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

That includes fully tested software, documentation, pricing/packaging, part numbers, marketing assets, targeted lead gen, competitive intelligence, support training, problem escalation, partner/channel materials, etc. We have everything we need to sign up a broad set of successful paying customers.

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GDPR: Who Should be Your Data Protection Officer?

Mind the Product

An existing employee can serve as the DPO, or you are also allowed to get an external consultant in to cover this role. There are some restrictions if an internal employee is your DPO – they can’t, for example, be a head of HR, head of IT or a member of the senior leadership team.