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8 Tips for Collaborating with Development Teams

Roman Pichler

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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How to Become a Startup Product Manager without Experience

The Product HQ

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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Iterative Product Development Process With Examples

Usersnap

The engineering team from Lockheed Martin used imperial units (pounds-force), while NASA’s team used metric units (newtons). From aviation’s decade-spanning aircraft design challenges to construction projects exceeding budgets and deadlines—the common thread is the struggle with unforeseen variables in the real-world.

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The Lean Startup Trap

The Product Coalition

In most cases, what you decide to build starts off as an idea that someone on the team had. When teams try to get market validation on their idea, the validation often tends to be biased. It sounds like good logic, but there are multiple challenges with building an MVP: Most teams over-engineer their MVP. This is natural.