Fri.Jul 03, 2020

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Why we Fought SAFe and how we Lost, by Stephen Culligan

Mind the Product

Stephen Culligan shares an honest and humorous tale of a ‘failed’ attempt to take on SAFe as a consultant in a large enterprise company, and the lessons that came out of the experience. Despite setting and aligning clear product, business and technical goals, employing modern product discovery techniques, and defining the North Star, the project [.].

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Epic Problem Statement

Tyner Blain

When solving complex problems at scale, we use epics, features, and stories to align, focus, and coordinate the work of multiple teams to achieve the objectives of our organizations. An epic represents the investment decision to solve a tangible problem; a collection of epics together represent a broader investment decision to advance the organization’s strategy.

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The Value of Mentoring for Product Leaders

Mind the Product

Adam Thomas loves to mentor – he jokes that in the multiverse where there’s a million different versions of yourself, “in 40% of them, I would be a teacher”. “I just get a huge kick out of it. I love seeing people understand things, seeing the lights come on.” Adam’s career has seen him progress from [.]. Read More. The post The Value of Mentoring for Product Leaders appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Recognizing Longevity

Mironov Consulting

During my recent move, I was channeling Marie Kondo and cleaning out old office stuff when I uncovered some mementos from the 90’s and 00’s. They reminded me how companies often celebrate hierarchy but rarely longevity – the willingness and commitment to stay with a company long enough to have an impact. Back story: I joined a 20-person startup in 1998 as the first product person.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Product Management in Times of Crisis

Ask Benny

The role of the product manager is to focus the team even and especially in time of crisis Human Behavior. While we all watch the world as it handles the crisis of the coronavirus in various ways including all the different ways we human beings are used to respond to events, it is an amazing opportunity to reflect how similar things happen in our organization in the face of even small events.

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Application Slowness Troubleshooting: Prove it is not the Network!

eG Innovations

This article was originally published on NetworkDataPedia. Slow Time is the New Down Time. The one complaint that an IT administrator dreads to receive is one where an end user says, “My application is slow!”. The application in question can be a web application, an enterprise application like SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, or a SaaS application like Salesforce or Office 365.