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

Product Talk

Himanshu Swaroop’s Advice: Get Everyone on the Same Page with Clear Strategy and Tactics Meet Himanshu Swaroop, Transformation Consultant. Himanshu Swaroop , a Transformation Consultant, shared his experience as an advisor at an insurance client where teams used to be set up based on functions. However, not everything went smoothly.

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Why is Agile Still Being Treated as Gospel?

The Product Coalition

This software development methodology is still in its infancy when it comes to our understanding of which teams should be embracing it and which should be shunning it. The core concepts of Agile were originally defined by a small group of software developers who had mixed experiences with traditional working processes.

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Special: Level Up Your Product: Innovation with Game Mechanics – with Mike Hyzy and Bret Wardle

Product Innovation Educators

Mike is a senior principal consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. Previously he has been a product management consultant and has held senior product management roles. Bret is a product leader with 15 years of game and software management experience who advocates for the convergence of design psychology in games and software.

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Product Development Health Check Playbook

The Product Coalition

To ensure you take a holistic approach, review these five key elements of your product development practice: Mindsets Organisation Practices Tools and Technologies Financials 1. Mindsets Are the right mindsets in place for successful product development? Is the team the right size with the right stakeholders engaged?

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A Look at the Year Ahead: The Product Talk Roadmap (With a Book Update)

Product Talk

And second, we need to shift discovery work from a project mindset to a continuous mindset. When I first started my consulting practice, I had this goal in mind, but I had no idea how I would reach it. When I first started my consulting practice, I had this goal in mind, but I had no idea how I would reach it. Tweet This.

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You Can’t Sell Your Product, They Have to Buy It

The Product Coalition

That was also the case with the CPO Bootcamp  — after having consulted for a while I decided to build a group program, and invited early adopters to join me for the first ride. My specialty as a strategic consultant and product executive coach is this complex triangle where the product meets the strategy and the business.

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The Making of Product Managers: Michael’s Story

The Product Coalition

He didn’t realize this at the time, but he was actually exercising a product manager mindset for the first time. Michael soon found a job at a management consulting firm as a Business Analyst working with different technology companies from startups to large enterprises. It taught him “how to communicate in every way”, Michael says.