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

Intercom, Inc.

While that doesn’t sound very bad, according to Corey Quinn, the world’s most notorious Cloud Economist, it goes against best practices or “sensible defaults” and is “ the worst practice to be avoided by default.” Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

Larger companies often have several portfolios; early-stage startups, in contrast, usually have a singleton one—it consists of just one offering. No matter, which option you choose, it would be a bad idea if a single person made all portfolio decisions on their own. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Another time, I was asked to help a team of a major charity in the UK whose task was to create a new website for their fund-raising campaigns. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success

Intercom, Inc.

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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What a Pre-PMF Startup Should Look Like

The Product Coalition

In the end, a pre-product-market fit startup’s only job is to find product-market fit (PMF), and therefore to explore different solutions as smartly and efficiently as possible. Exploring 2 directions at a time, max We’re 5 people on our team, including 4 with an engineering background. 4 of the 5 people in the team were engineers.

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

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.