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7 Things You Need to Know About Agile Product Management

Accenture

In this 2015 article Tom Goodwin wrote: “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. The enterprise primed to survive and thrive in today’s environment, guided by a clear vision and human-centric values, has all four of the business agility capabilities: Delivery Agility. Product Innovation.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Investing in Agility. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. They’re the secret to Agile success.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She is responsible for R&D (both product management & engineering) for GemFire and associated Pivotal Cloud Cache product. She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. 20 influential women in software development. .

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AoAD2 Chapter 5: Invest in Agility

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Invest in Agility. As we saw in the previous chapter, in order for your teams to get the benefits of Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. Second Edition cover.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. How to Be Agile. What does it mean to “be Agile?”. As we’ve seen in the previous chapters, Agile is a philosophy: a way of thinking about software development. Practicing Agile. Second Edition cover.

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Motivation to Get Better

Agile42

Group and REIDIN in 2015. Since Zingat is in a highly competitive business and being agile is the only way for them to be responsive to the market needs, they have been using Scrum and agility practices for a long time. Initially, there was only one team of four people who created the product “Zingat” from scratch.

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The Two Sides of Teams

LeanEssays

Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of agile development practices is the way in which teams decide what to do. What product should be built? Historically, someone with the role of business analyst, project manager, or product manager made the critical decisions about what to build. What features are most important?