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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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437: Product road mapping for executives to align customer needs and business strategy – with Maziar Adl

Product Innovation Educators

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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When to Declare Backlog Bankruptcy

ProductPlan

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. And I diligently added the stories to the backlog. I diligently prioritized and managed the epics and stories, moving them into the next two or three sprints in the sprint backlog. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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What Your Executives Want to See When You’re Presenting Your Roadmap

ProductPlan

As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots of experience both presenting executive-facing roadmaps and receiving those presentations. I understand how much thought (and possibly anxiety) goes into these roadmap presentations. Mistakes I’ve Seen When Presenting Executive Roadmaps.

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3 Compelling Concepts from Basecamp's Shape Up

Sachin Rekhi

Their latest book, Shape Up by Ryan Singer, delivered another compelling read on effectively managing software projects. The book shares the full software development process that the Basecamp team currently uses across it's 50-person team to build and enhance Basecamp itself. We’ve shaped our own way. Shape the work.

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Security at Intercom: How our InfoSec team protects our customers’ data and trust

Intercom, Inc.

Shipping is our heartbeat ” has been the motto of the Intercom R&D org from the very beginning and engineers ship code to our customer-facing production app dozens of times a day. In most SaaS companies, R&D is the organization that innovates the most, and therefore introduces the highest level of potentially risky change. .