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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

For example, my first iteration focused on the problem statements, targeted customer, technical strategies, pricing strategies, and competitiveness evaluation, which was all excellent content that offered important product context but just not the right place. First Attempt. As expected, I ran into a lot of issues at the start of the process.

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Why Technical Debt Roadmaps Don’t Work

ProductPlan

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. It’ll go away ,” the famous TV dad advised his family on dealing with challenges. In this article, we’ll discuss why technical debt roadmaps don’t work. We call it a mistake.

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Sprint Planning Tips for Product Owners

Roman Pichler

For advise on when to carry out product backlog grooming, please see my article “ When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? ”. Software development is an exciting but demanding profession. Unforeseen things can happen in software development including people falling ill and a server going down. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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How Software Products are Created in Test Kitchens

The Product Coalition

If test kitchens make so much sense in other settings to evaluate and evolve new equipment, tooling, systems, processes, and products why haven’t they been leveraged more with software products? One reason is that intentional software product test kitchens are often viewed as an extra expense and operational overhead.

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology. Unfortunately, there were none.

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Better Product Internationalization With Localization Best Practices

The Product Coalition

Start on the right foot By factoring in a localization process from the get-go and choosing the right translation software and vendor, translations can be automated and accelerated on a technical level. The most helpful vendors are those that advise on the right processes and best translation management tools for the task at hand.