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Aligning Your Roadmap Themes to the Customer Journey

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Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap , which challenges product teams to present their plans grounded more in strategic vision – or by themes – rather than a laundry list of specific features. How to Decide on Roadmap Themes that Produce Meaningful Outcomes.

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Product Development Health Check Playbook

The Product Coalition

project managers or SMEs guiding roadmaps) A Product Development Health Check can help identify issues in your product development practice, find the underlying causes and give you ideas about how to address them. Things like code reviews, source code control, automated testing and shared code style guides are all important basic practices.

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Breaking The Walls Between Business and Agile Teams

The Product Coalition

Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Management and business folk therefore still live very much in “waterfall world” where big projects are delivered according to well-defined, largely immutable strategies, roadmaps and project plans. The bigger context?—?users,

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It

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5 Ways Product Teams Can Drive an Exceptional Customer Experience Strategy

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It hit me by surprise but was so incredibly obvious at the same time: The user’s experience does not start and end within the software itself. But what happens when there’s a separate set of Key Performance Indicators ( KPI s) from one department to the other? Lack of shared goals. Fragmented technology investments.

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

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Organizing, automating, and making meaning out of this data tsunami is another critical product operations skill that lets product managers spend less time digging up or transmitting the basics and more time extracting the deep value that eventually informs the product roadmap. In some cases, the job has a narrow focus. Data is important.

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Complete Guide—Technical Program Manager Interview Questions & Answers

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

The best way to get ready is by reviewing some real TPM interview questions from some of the top tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and more. The responsibilities of a technical program manager are a little more big picture than that of a software engineer. For example, these questions are typically focused on system design.