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Advice for successfully leading a distributed development team

The Product Coalition

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. We had successfully released our new feature to hundreds of thousands of users, after what seemed like an eternity?—?ten You’re all part of a team. While keeping those in mind?—?and

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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

For example, the owner of a persistence service has to be able to describe its interfaces or APIs and converse with the users—the development team members who use the service. I regard feature and component owners as members of a product team , a group of product people who collaboratively manage a larger product.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Instead, I respond, “How can your team function without one?” They certainly don’t serve to dictate every move a team should make. Contrary to popular belief, their primary purpose isn’t to guide the team.

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Continuous Delivery in the Wild: 4 Successful Practices

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Every high-performing continuous delivery team I spoke with placed an extremely high value on reducing batch size – reducing the number of changes involved in any given production deployment. In fact, some stated that their release process simply wouldn’t be sustainable if batch sizes grew too large.

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An Interview with Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery, Engineering Culture, and Making Decisions

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People he encounters will often say, “Hey, have you heard of this lean product development?” Some companies are saying, “We are using this new way of software development called ‘Agile.’” When you can share experiment results across a team, and democratize that data, everyone feels connected to where the product is headed, and why.