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In Scope for My Role?

Mironov Consulting

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.  Let’s imagine a Director of Product responsible for a portfolio, with 5 product manager direct reports matched to 5 stable maker teams.    With lots of gray space between the two.

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Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.)

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How to Write App Development Request For Proposals (RFP) Correctly

The Product Coalition

we got this request long before our MVP development agency was founded. And, you know, sometimes such a request is better than a 75-pages technical requirement. So, when it comes to contacting the development company, product owners tend to skip the whole-picture level and go straight into details i.e In fact, they won’t.

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How to run a product meeting and nurture your team culture

UX Studio: Product Management

If you want to know what the culture is like in a product team, you should visit one of their product meetings. Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? None of these are good or bad, but these signs can help you evaluate the culture of the team. How were we developing our teams?

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The Testing Mindset – How to Find Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned. In the end it is almost always about finding product/market fit. Technical Feasibility. Chaos Report 2015. Reduce the Costs of Failure.

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Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. How do I build alignment?