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Product Goals in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Background Story : Readers familiar with the history of Scrum—sometimes lovingly referred to as Scrumtorians—will undoubtedly know that it has contained sprint goals at least since 2002 and a (product) vision since 2004 , even though the latter is not mentioned in the Scrum Guide.

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The Power of Amazon's Written Narratives

Sachin Rekhi

But by 2004, Jeff Bezos had become increasingly frustrated with the lack of productivity he felt from the exec meetings he held with product teams. In 2004, Bezos and team came across an essay by Edward Tufte , a Yale professor who is an authority on the visualization of information. Get used to it."

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OKRs and Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

If you work with a public product roadmap, then I advise using vague time frames such as in the second half of 2004 or in 2025. [6] See the article The GO Product Roadmap for a roadmap example with multiple goals. [5] 6] OKRs are usually set for a quarter, see Radical Focus , 2 nd ed., 8] Figure 4 shows part of my product strategy model. [9]

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Saying Goodbye

The Product Bistro

Sales training in 2004 in Europe. It has become almost a religion to me, and I think that I have done some memorable runs: Paris -Running to the Eiffel Tower, through the Arc de Triomphe and back to our hotel (2004 sales training.). I should have known that would be a harbinger of the level of travel that I would need to do. (My

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Scaling the Product Owner Role

Roman Pichler

A common technique to do this is unbundling a feature and releasing it as a separate product—like Facebook did with the Messenger app in 2004. The alternative to sharing the responsibility of managing a product is to break up the latter. Another technique is creating product variants—think of iPod shuffle and iPod Touch, for example.

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Putting $125M to work for you, our customers

Intercom, Inc.

I studied artificial intelligence in college in 2004. We’ll share a lot more soon, but we think you’ll love it for the new use cases it will unlock, uniquely for you. Investing in machine learning to make automation personal at scale. It was overhyped then, and it’s overhyped now.

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Product Goals in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Background Story : Readers familiar with the history of Scrum—sometimes lovingly referred to as Scrumtorians—will undoubtedly know that it has contained sprint goals at least since 2002 and a (product) vision since 2004 , even though the latter is not mentioned in the Scrum Guide.