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To Ensure Project Success, Follow your Intuition and Ask for Clarity

The Product Coalition

About 12 years ago, I was an executive advisor on a project at a large telecommunications company. I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. However, his team interpreted agile as implementing agile project management and development methodologies. Part of his vision was “being agile”.

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Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups

The Product Coalition

Vertical integration delivers a level of control but also requires incurring costs a startup may not be able to afford, e.g., staff augmentation and management. In that context, managing the recurring costs of staging the solution in the cloud while maintaining the quality of service at a large scale was critical.

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The Number One Thing Product Managers Want This Year

ProductPlan

Despite general happiness with their jobs , many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some key things they want to change this year. That was one of the takeaways from our Product Managers in 2020 Report with answers from more than 2,500 product management professionals. Let’s take a look.