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What Happens to Managers in Scrum? – Episode 1 of ScrumCast

scruminc

Here’s how Avi and Dave define that term: AVI SCHNEIER: “I think we want to distinguish the fact that product managers are not always middle managers. There's definitely a place for them. This obviously broad term is used to describe a wide range of positions that vary from organization to organization.

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Making Software Development Teams Hum with Ron Lichty

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

So I co-author the study of product team performance and we are launching a sixth survey of people on product teams all over the world. We do a survey of developers, and product managers, and product owners and scrum masters, and testers, and just all the people who are on product teams.

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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

The culture gap between sales and development/product teams (21:46). Where does product management fit between sales and development? (26:31). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Links: Guest’s Website: [link].

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Book Review: Halftime

Lead on Purpose

He compares it to halftime in sports (games like basketball and American football) that have a break during games. Bob is definitely a religious man (Christian) and that comes out significantly throughout the book. It provides great advice on how to make your life significant in ways you probably never imagined.

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Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

The culture gap between sales and development/product teams (21:46). Where does product management fit between sales and development? (26:31). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Links: Guest’s Website: [link].

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

For example, a pattern I use when I was at TripIt was we would turn it on for our internal users, like myself as a product manager, our UE designer, make sure everything works to our satisfaction basically doing a UAT, a user acceptance testing. I mean, I’ve been a developer and I’ve been a product manager.

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AoAD2 Practice: Alignment

James Shore

Maybe you’ve had that experience, too: being part of a great sports team, a band, or a volunteer group. It’s just for team members and people who work closely with the team, such as a product manager. For the definition of “done,” you can use the “Done Done” checklist in this book.) When teams work, they’re electrifying.