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Why You Need to Shift Your Team from “Agil-ish” to Agile [+Webinar]

280 Group

To learn more in-depth about how to adapt Agile values and become more effective at delighting your customers, join our upcoming webinar, How Teams and Leaders Can Unleash the Power of Agile , this Thursday at 10:00AM PT. When he asked teams if they were Agile, every single answer was, yes. It’s a team sport.

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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. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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Product Operations — You Asked, We Answered

280 Group

How do you balance a solid ProdOps framework with giving product teams some autonomy to do things in a way that works best for them? The ProdOps team can provide accurate customer data and contact info pulled from other repositories. The ProdOps team is a valued partner to both! Thank you all for engaging in our webinar!

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Document. Refine. Repeat! Mastering the Product Process.

280 Group

It’s the spark that gives rise to innovative, ground-breaking product development. . The “phase-gate” approach was made popular by the “waterfall” development methodology, where products move through a series of handoffs between departments. Gate: Should the company fund product development to achieve these business goals? .

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Behind the Product: Why CNN+ Failed

280 Group

In short, the team that conceived of CNN+ failed to apply basic Product Management principles as they devised their offering: Market research : Prior to the CNN+ launch, Netflix was already showing signs of instability. Due to network agreement with cable systems, it lacked what viewers expected: a live feed of breaking news stories.

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Mastering Personas: A Product Manager’s Secret Weapon

280 Group

Despite their potential to unify teams and drive product success, personas can sometimes become more of a hindrance than a helpful tool. What relevance does any of this information have for our intrepid developers who need to design the next feature release? The answer – No relevance at all!

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A Tale of Two Roadmaps?—?And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One

The Product Coalition

The first was a precise set of tasks, milestones, and deliverables for the diligent civil servants tasked with building — the engineers, designers, and product managers. In the product team’s, err, I mean civil servants’ headquarters, the roadmap was a living document, evolving like a dynamic organism. Enter the product team roadmap.

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