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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

What is Bad Performance? Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower - Product Management

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? These are the worries that keep team leads up at night.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I gather data through surveys about observations. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Enhancing Product Development With User Feedback Loops

Split

Customer feedback can fine tune your product roadmap. Receiving this feedback and acting upon it quickly can be the difference between an exiting new product or feature, or a project that is stuck in the mud. This approach allows product teams to refine their offerings based on user data.

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Product Strategy and Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is the process of “figuring out a solution to a problem we’ve been asked to solve,” writes Marty Cagan. [1] The solutions, finally, are the products or product capabilities that help solve the customer needs.

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Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: How Are Teams Adopting Discovery Habits?

Product Talk

Product thought leaders talk about an ideal way of working. I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” product outcomes).

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Don’t Use Generative AI to Replace Discovery with Real Humans

Product Talk

I’m disappointed to see the rise of generative AI tools that are designed to replace discovery with real humans. But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Don’t get me wrong.