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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

What is Bad Performance? Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Carefully consider who should participate in the meeting to achieve the objective you have set. 1 Set an Objective.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

2] Figure 2: A Sample Product Portfolio Strategy If you are familiar with my work on product strategy , you’ll recognise the structure I’ve used in Figure 2: It is based on the Product Vision Board —the tool I’ve developed to capture a product vision and a product strategy. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

Roman Pichler

You know, though, that it is impossible to add the feature to the development effort. The dev team is struggling with the current workload, and moving the date is not an option. What’s more, you suspect that John’s request may be motivated by the desire to meet his sales targets. Don’t Feel Bad about Saying No.

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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

Lenny Rachitsky

Founders of acquihired companies led the teams behind Community Notes, Spaces, Super Follows, Fleets, Communities, Tipping, and more. Twitter acquihired entrepreneur types who were ambitious and then gave them responsibility and autonomy to develop new products. Copying can be done in good taste or poor taste.

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One Bad Meeting Can Create a Culture of Silence

Business of Software Conference

Elizabeth O’Neill, People & Culture expert, BoS participant and this year speaker, explains the difference between having one bad meeting and creating a culture of silence in this guest blog post. One Bad Meeting Can Create a Culture of Silence. Excitedly, he pulls together his small team and describes his idea. .