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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

Lenny Rachitsky

Founders of acquihired companies led the teams behind Community Notes, Spaces, Super Follows, Fleets, Communities, Tipping, and more. Twitter acquihired entrepreneur types who were ambitious and then gave them responsibility and autonomy to develop new products. Copying can be done in good taste or poor taste.

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How to Perform A Product Feature Analysis

Userpilot

Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. This type of analysis helps identify which features contribute positively to your product’s value and which might be redundant or underperforming.

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How to Become an Amazing Agile Developer

The Product HQ

Wondering what it takes to become an amazing agile developer? This post outlines all the traits, essential skills, and soft skills that characterize what it means to be an amazing agile developer. 8 Steps to Become a Rockstar Agile Developer Here is a step-by-step process on how to become an agile developer: 1.

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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. Poor strategy is everywhere?—?you

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New Feature Validation Framework For Product Managers

Userpilot

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. How can you build one?

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

.” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. In Scrum—the framework that gave birth to the product owner—the role is responsible for maximising the value a product creates for the users and for the business. That’s usually challenging enough.

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Why designers fail to integrate into Agile teams

UX Planet

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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