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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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70 Scrum Master Theses

The Product Coalition

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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Cliniko founder Joel Friedlaender on bringing digital transformation to healthcare

Intercom, Inc.

As face-to-face consultations were no longer an option for many healthcare providers, Joel and his team dropped everything and asked themselves: what could they build to help their customers (and their customers’ patients) adapt to the new normal? It was exciting, and the worst-case scenario wasn’t so bad. Joel: Sure.

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The Agile Arrow – a visual framework for managing complex sales deals

Intercom, Inc.

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. Complex deals, complex problems.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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What Seems to Be The Customer Problem?

The Product Coalition

Example: Project manager prepares a project utilization report Delivery manager at a bespoke software development company prepares a report of how many man-days have been utilized on a project for a given client. Custom development of a bespoke reporting tool 2. Try a little exercise, before we move on.

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Keeping Ourselves Accountable: 5 Simple Tools For Product Designers

UX Planet

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.