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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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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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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

When I need to take a break from writing, I save the document. But the ability to save the document is a feature, a part of the overall product. A feature owner is an individual who owns a capability end users can interact with, for example, the ability to persist a Word document or to edit it. Word is the product.