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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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Build vs. Buy: When to Buy Software or Build It Yourself

Alchemer Mobile

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges.

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Build vs. Buy: When to Buy Software or Build It Yourself

Alchemer Mobile

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges.

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Aligning Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers for Success – Interview With Aatir Abdul Rauf

Userpilot

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. What are the typical roles and responsibilities of product managers and product marketing managers?

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Do Your Clients Need to Develop Software At All?

The Product Coalition

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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How to Perform A Product Feature Analysis

Userpilot

TL;DR Product feature analysis involves evaluating product features to understand their impact on user satisfaction and market performance. Review feature usage data. Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders.

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Ten UX/UI Design Challenges That Can Compromise Financial Apps

The Product Coalition

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.