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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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The Software Development Deli Counter

Mironov Consulting

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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The Code and Fix Model

The Product Coalition

When one learns to code, the initial steps involve a great deal of experimentation with code writing and debugging. The learning process usually starts by writing the program and then finding all the software bugs and fixing them. It is a cyclic process consisting of two major steps: Coding and Fixing.

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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 Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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8 Tips for Collaborating with Development Teams

Roman Pichler

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.