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What is Testimonial Driven Development?

Mind the Product

I came up with the concept during a workshop a couple of years ago and have been using it successfully ever since. But any workshop should provide a dozen testimonials. However, I want to present a different perspective, Testimonial Driven Development (TDD). It will let you see further into the future, beyond just product outcomes.

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Product in Practice: How Botify Broke Down Silos and Moved to Product Trios

Product Talk

Many said it is an iterative process that requires a lot of repetition and use internal trio models or even decide that the first trio must exist at the management level (CPO/CTO/ Head of Design) before it can be implemented in teams. At Botify, we realized that the first step to good communication was to get to know each other,” says Claire.

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Your Product Manager Super Power: Not Knowing Everything

Mind the Product

During planning workshops the engineers were mentioning a lot of tools, methods, processes and concepts that were unfamiliar to her. Once Lizzie’s team had broken everything down into discrete blocks of value and decided which they would tackle first, her tech lead wondered whether “this would be impressive enough for our CTO”.

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Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value

bpma ProductHub

She provides coaching, training, and facilitates discovery and planning workshops across diverse industries. He is a West Point graduate, former fighter pilot and cancer researcher, as well as CTO of eleven different software companies. Ellen is a world-renowned writer, speaker, and presenter.

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Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams

Intercom, Inc.

I was often asked the same questions, and I found myself leading these workshops many times. I started developing these exercises, and reproducing them in workshops. For example, I can give input on the data base schema if I want to, or if I have a strong opinion, but the CTO or the tech lead makes that final call.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Conference Tickets. Leadership Forum. Stephanie Hannon, CPO at Strava.

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Oh the Drama! What Product Managers can Learn From Actors

Mind the Product

Sailesh Panchal, CTO at digital payments firm Orwell Group, is an unusual soul. He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. In workshops, we’ve either used actors or got some students to act, while the remainder sit as an audience and provide subtext.