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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

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Reinertsen is keenly aware of what makes product development different from other business functions, like manufacturing, that we sometimes use as a metaphor. Product development deals in designs, which are fundamentally intangible. Hence the need for partitioning our resources into a separate problem team and solution team.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

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But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. If developers get the feedback and can integrate it into the product, it will ultimately be successful. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies.

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Datablindness

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You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. Now that I put on events with official hosts and sponsors, my experience is different. Imagine you are crossing the street.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

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Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. Usually, that will be about finding new segments of customers that the company can profitably serve.