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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. The original developers are usually 5x faster at finding and fixing their own issues because they know what was written, where it lives, and why they thought it might be correct.  

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) To delete the letters MVP from roadmaps and product charters. Here’s why….

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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. There might be a “centralized” function for these groups, but all the people developing and supporting this product are in the product line.