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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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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

I then do various interviews with executives all the way to Product Management team members and surrounding functions. But that’s okay, because once we know where the weak spots are, we can fix them. Siloed Teams : Teams work in isolation rather than collaboratively, resulting in inefficiencies and a lack of unified vision or approach.

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Product Management Outcomes – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Product Management University

Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to product management outcomes. THE GOOD When it comes to getting your product management and product development teams focused, nothing beats well-defined outcomes that are clear, concise and measurable. But not all outcomes are created equal.

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Should Stakeholders Be on the Product Team?

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Core Product Team Product teams come in different shapes and sizes. But all product teams I have seen consisted of the person in charge of the product—the product manager or Scrum product owner —and development team members.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. How to combat the challenges that arise between these two teams. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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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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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. The amount of bad data causes teams to waste valuable time during their workflow, and decreases their number of targeted prospects.

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UX and Design Tips for Better Dashboards: Product Manager Laura Klein Explains How to Improve Your Analytics

Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups

That's why Laura Klein, product manager and UX designer, has a set of tips to help application teams improve their embedded dashboards and reports. You'll learn: How to develop products that boost your business's bottom line while dramatically improving customer experience. No one makes poorly designed products on purpose.