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Book review: “Product Roadmaps Relaunched”

bpma ProductHub

A new book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched, could help you re-think and re-launch your approach to Product Roadmapping. It’s a real practitioners’ book, written by four Boston-based leaders in Product Management: C. The book is packed with examples and best practices. The book will be available in October.

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Writing a Book: How Continuous Discovery Helped Me Write a Better Book

Product Talk

It won’t surprise you to hear that I use the same continuous discovery habits that I wrote about in my book to run my business. When I set out to write my book, I was focused on a specific opportunity : “I’m not sure what discovery tactics to use when.” And thus, I announced that I was in fact writing a book. That was a mistake.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! Don’t add to your stack unless you’re certain that your use case will not be satisfied by existing software.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Note that frequently adapting your product requires that it’s easy to modify the code. If the software is brittle and the code quality is poor, changing the product will take longer and be more expensive. It is therefore worthwhile to measure the code quality and minimise technical debt. Third, form a product team.

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A Look at the Year Ahead: The Product Talk Roadmap (With a Book Update)

Product Talk

I know many of you are anxiously awaiting an update on my upcoming book. I use the exact same methods that I teach to product trios to run my own business. ” I’ve dabbled in this space with my Northwestern ExecEd course and my Business of Software talk. The Book: Continuous Discovery Habits (Spring / Summer 2021).

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

If your goal is to acquire customers, for example, then ask yourself how many new customers should be acquired; or if your goal is to reduce technical debt, determine how much of the bad code should be removed or rewritten. 10 Regularly Review and Adjust the Roadmap. Carry out this exercise together with the development team.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer. I was all alone.