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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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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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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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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. Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream.

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Interview: A Chat with BPMA Mentor and Edx CTO, Mark Haseltine

bpma ProductHub

Being born and raised in New England, I’ve been a part of the Boston area development community for decades now — making a point to foster and support local professional organizations whenever I am able. I tend to seek out people who can advise me best in my current circumstances. How did you get involved with the BPMA?

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How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth

Department of Product

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. For example, Frontend and Backend teams. So they expect Frontend teams and Backend teams. Every team should aspirationally be able to deliver business value without involving other teams.

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing. Others will fail.