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Technical Debt and Product Success

Roman Pichler

To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. I find that development team members usually have a good understanding where issues in the architecture and code are.

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Is it okay to outsource MVP to a development agency?

NextBigWhat

Many founders are confused whether to outsource their MVP development to a development agency (or a freelancer) vs. build it fully in-house. The confusion lies in the fact that many investors / serial tech founders often share that one should own everything in-house and not outsource the development. Outsource the development.

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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

Last but not least, in customer-oriented and agile teams, decision-making criteria are often narrowed down for efficiency to a single question: What business value does this bring to the customer? This approach is also effective in hierarchical teams, where members often expect the lead to take action in case of ambiguity.

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Co-Located vs. Remote/Distributed Teams: What Works and Why

The Product Coalition

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf on why design must have a seat at the table

Intercom, Inc.

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them. Short on time?

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