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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

That’s the first step of smart product development. Related: The Importance of Customer Development for Startups. Dan Olsen, an expert in product management and author of The Lean Product Playbook , has emphasized product-market fit as critical to the success of a start-up. This is especially relevant for the startup world.

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The Illusion of Velocity

Scrum.org

Moreover, I point to the advantages gained from leadership engaging directly with teams. The core of “Agile” is that the best products and solutions to customer problems emerge from self-organizing, cross-functional teams. 2015): Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Collins, T., Snowden, D.

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Velocity Illusionen ??

Scrum.org

Außerdem weise ich auf die Vorteile hin, die sich aus der direkten Zusammenarbeit zwischen Führungskräften und Teams ergeben. Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter: Developer Anti-Patterns — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (3). ? Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

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Donnie’s Article at Online PM Courses: A Simple Way to Develop Interpersonal Skills for Project Managers. We make Agile teams become amazing, check out our free online masterclass: agilesumo.com. Developing Leaders. Serving the project management community since 2007 with fresh project management articles every day!

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Leading Answers

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. We can create backlogs and release plans all we like, but until there is a motivated team with a shared vision of the end goal, it is like trying to push a rope—ineffective.