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A Clear Path to Growth and Maturity: Why Does Product Lifecycle Management Matter?

The Product Coalition

They don’t oppose process at a local level; it’s the governance they resist?—?someone They don’t realize that without a process to govern across, products often fail to reach the growth phase, the team doesn’t make end-to-end decisions, and swirl often abounds amongst many other challenges. someone looking over their shoulder.

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Intercom on Product: Facing the tech slowdown

Intercom, Inc.

To keep morale up, keep communicating the mission and vision for the company and remind people the work they’re doing is important. In shrinking markets, you get stronger feedback and learn faster whether your product is there and what needs to change. Focus on getting the right thing done, even if it’s done by the wrong person.

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You Are Building the WRONG Things in your SaaS product

The Product Coalition

The solution is collaborating at several levels and it starts with developing a shared vision and purpose for the product. Getting buy in to the company vision and the ‘why’ driving that vision are essential. Agreement and understanding of both the company and product vision give the team a North Star.

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Prashanth Chandrasekar on writing the script of the future

Intercom, Inc.

Our Director of Engineering Jordan Neill spoke with CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar , who took the reins at Stack Overflow in October 2019, about his vision for the community of builders he says are helping to write the script of the future. On the public side, it’s the meta community and other broader feedback loops.

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Pros and Cons of Centralized and Decentralized Transformations

Agile Velocity

However, this often means there is no core leadership or guiding coalition, so it results in ‘pocket agility’ with localized benefits and incoherent practices and processes that are hard to sustain or optimize. . It could also result in top-down governance and enforcement, with the focus being more on ‘doing’ and not ‘being’ agile.

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Intercom on Product: Speeding back up when momentum drops

Intercom, Inc.

Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. You get these nice feedback loops with the rest of the company that reinforce the feeling that you’re making progress fast.

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Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on defining the citizen experience

Intercom, Inc.

Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. And finally, last year, she joined Code For America as their CEO to do exactly what she does best – to make government work for all. Feedback can’t just be incorporated every election cycle. May of last year?