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

ProjectManager.com

You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. That’s the first step of smart product development. Related: The Importance of Customer Development for Startups. He has developed a six-step framework, which he called the Lead Product Process.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? Of all the impediments that a team faces, which is the one to focus on first? So where do you find it?

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Zen and Code Maintenance

Leading Agile

We’ve had a bad habit at our house over the years. The connection with software development/maintenance is probably obvious. Tying Up Loose Ends in Software. Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer. Tying Up Loose Ends at Home.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

I invited them here to have a conversation with me because I was out with clients doing presale stuff and working with executives on the teams and the conversation around full stack teams, software craftsmanship, clean coding, different strategies for how to get developers engaged and involved was coming up.

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Balanced Professional Interest

Leading Agile

In working with technical people at the individual and team levels, I often find attitudes that pull toward one extreme or the other: Either our work is inherently uninteresting, and we’re only in it for the paycheck; or our work is a boundless source of joy, learning, and achievement through which we can transcend the human condition.

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Assume a Spherical Cow

Leading Agile

A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. You probably spotted my error immediately.

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. Business drivers have to be translated into project drivers by a strong technical team, not management. Incorrect definition of project success. What is the most effective way to avoid failure?