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In Scope for My Role?

Mironov Consulting

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.  Push internal recruiters hard, perhaps reviewing stacks of résumés together to clearly communicate what you’re looking for.    With lots of gray space between the two.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code. We were testing our code. How did I get here?

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How We Dealt With Project Challenges: An Agile Approach in a Deadline-driven Development

The Product Coalition

Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to develop successful software projects in spite of many challenges. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.