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Sprint Review – Make it Much More Than a Demo…

Agile Velocity

In a previous post in our Scrum Assessment Series , we shared some ideas to help catalyze engaging sprint reviews. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Why is the Review so important?

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. What’s the right way to do this in your company?

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Leadership Tip 12: Focus on Effectiveness, Not Efficiency

Johanna Rothman

Finally, Charlie agreed to review the project portfolio the following week. He asked Danielle to present at the meeting. Some ideas: Streamlining the build and deploy systems, to reduce lead time. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. We're not focused on what makes us effective for our customers.”

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Solving Product Development Challenges With Product Review

Mind the Product

While product managers have a variety of techniques to cope with this ambiguity, from the Mind the Product slack channel to thunderdome-like meetings, one powerful solution is product review. This is a formal review of the product’s progress by senior product managers in order to assess the status and suggest avenues to explore.

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How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Netflix does not have a structured performance review system; instead it relies on ongoing conversations and the annual 360 feedback process. Operating a company with informal performance reviews and limited planning processes requires competent, driven, and trustworthy individuals.

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HOW A CAPSTONE PROJECT LED TO A ROBUST FUTURE IN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT.

Product Management Unpacked

After nine years working as a systems engineer, applications engineer, software engineer and finally, a lead data engineer, Debashish Sasmal was ready for his next strategic move. I had a strong tech background, so I wanted to dive into the business and design side of product management and hone my leadership skills. And it’s CMU.”.

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Leadership Skills for the New Normal

Agile Velocity

Leadership Skills that focus on “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. Great Leadership Skills. We share below a few leadership skills that leaders can experiment with towards these outcomes. Organization: building plans, creating systems and structures to work effectively, and use their energy efficiently.