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Why designers fail to integrate into Agile teams

UX Planet

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. But in my new Agile team, I was designing fragments that felt incomplete.

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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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Peter Thiel's Anti-Lean Manifesto

Sachin Rekhi

His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. And every major business school now offers an innovation class that leverages the business model canvas and other lean principles for developing a new product idea. A bad plan is better than no plan."

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

Pivoting done well means the team doesn’t lose direction and can build on the insights for new product development. The product team discovered that visitors mostly used the video upload feature and stripped down all other features over time. The game “Glitch” was the first product launched in 2011.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Product Management developed organically, as the intersection between engineering and brand management. After all, many paths lead to product!

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group. But since the roots of the team were still in content operations and back-office processes, this remained their default solution even at times where technology could have been a better one.

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16 Best Product Marketing Campaigns To Inspire Your Own

Userpilot

To create a successful product marketing strategy, you need to set tangible goals, create user personas to understand your target audience better, and develop messaging that showcases your unique value proposition. Userpilot is a product growth platform that allows product teams to: Create different UI patterns for in-app marketing campaigns.