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Timeline of 20 Common Product Development Activities

The Product Coalition

How long an activity takes can have a huge impact on success or the perception of success when developing products. More often than not, teams are overly optimistic on the timeline that will be required to complete an activity. You can put unnecessary pressure on your team. You might design your organisation or team poorly.

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How To Maximize An Agile Team – Don’t Give Up On Scrum

Modus Create

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. We were so rigorous about following the rules that we completely missed the spirit of agile software development.

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Why data teams struggle with data validation (and how to change that)

Iteratively Blog

But how do you fix the garbage that is bad data management and quality? Especially if you don’t have control over the implementation of tracking code (as is the case with many data teams). Now, let’s look at why data teams struggle with this validation, and how they can overcome the challenges of it. Well, it’s tricky.

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Popular data validation techniques for analytics, and why you need them

Iteratively Blog

By definition, reactive data validation takes place after the fact and uses anomaly detection to identify any issues your data may have, and to help ease the symptoms of bad data. While these methods are better than nothing, they don’t solve the core problems causing the bad data in the first place. Here’s why: Data is a team sport.

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Essential Technical Program Manager Skills

The Product HQ

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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4 Product Management Hacks to get the Most out of Failure

Mind the Product

Failing is an eventuality in software development. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch. On one of my projects, my team needed to spin up a static website to publicize our product quickly. Not only do we fail, we are encouraged to fail iteratively.

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The many paths of a product manager

The Product Coalition

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.