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Why Successful Product Management Involves More Than Spectacular Specs

YoungUpstarts

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Manage Your Workflow — Or Else.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. Start by identifying every method you currently have of collecting information, including marketing data, website metrics, feedback collection and analysis procedures.

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Generation Agile: 10 Tips How To Lead Effectively A Newly Outsourced Development Team

YoungUpstarts

Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology, with Jira, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project, being the most popular tool to be used in Agile project management. The more traditional approach is to ensure all requirements identified at the start of the project has been developed, then release the product to the market.

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

I can send you more links to more information about our product if needed.” In the past, we’ve assumed that potential customers would always arrive at our website after Googling a specific search term, and we’d make them “aware” of a problem and how our product solves this problem. Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. 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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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next. But, over the years I’ve realized that the toughest problem - the one that matters most and was consistently the most challenging - was figuring out what the product backlog should be.

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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

Each game team is led by a product lead that has the final decision for the team. This starts with the type of game a product lead wants to make and ends with the way the teams organize themselves internally. Teams decide on their own how to do things, although they usually blend in elements of Scrum and/or Kanban.