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Devolving From Good To Bad

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I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. But in this article I want to talk about a pattern that I see in many companies that are actually doing really well, growing aggressively, yet they will sometimes, over time and unintentionally, replace their good behaviors with bad ones.

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How Product Can (and Can’t) Speed Up Development

Mironov Consulting

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Delegation for Product Leaders

Mironov Consulting

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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

Userpilot

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Who is Marty Cagan?

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How a Release Burn-up can do Some of Your Stakeholder Management

Mind the Product

Scrum is a great way of organising software development teams but it doesn’t answer the sorts of questions that CFO types love to ask like “how much will it cost and when will I get it?” A layered backlog – which includes granular stories ready for the developers to work on. Other key Ingredients.

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The Strategic Role of Product Management when Development goes Agile

Pragmatic Marketing

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. There is no single, definitive “agile method.”