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What, Exactly, Is Agile Management?

The Agile Manager

Historically, management has never been loved, and in fact is often loathed, by engineers. Management appears to be well integrated in Agile teams, not an overhead, nuisance, or encumbrance as it is in traditional project management. They all had characteristics that are applicable to all management roles.

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Announcing Modus Kickstart

Modus Create

After working with companies of all sizes, Modus has developed a process that brings product management, design, and engineering together. Ideation exercises and design studio workshops help define what the solution will be and how it might look. Project Preparedness. How every Modus Kickstart is organized varies.

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When to Consider Setting Up A/B Testing

Modus Create

I have a confession to make: as a growth-oriented product manager, I tend to gravitate towards A/B testing whenever I can. In this case, we will want to come back and sanity check our test results after the data ages just to make sure that these data points align as expected: exercise completion leads to paying for a subscription.

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Labor's New Deal

The Agile Manager

A simple search for “product manager” positions in Chicago yields over 6,300 openings; in New York over 6,800 openings; and in Dallas over 5,800 openings. Imagine a company with, say, 100 experienced software engineers, project managers, QA engineers and the like that expects to add a dozen more people to the team in the next year.

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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

When it comes to Agile project management, managers here don’t tell the team what they should be working on. Second, if you feel like waterfall methods keep your team’s productivity stagnant then it may be a good idea to try the Agile project management method. William Chin, Web Consultant at PickFu.

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A Product Design Glossary: 31 UX & Design Industry Terms

Praxent

An exercise that helps to identify important feelings, actions, behaviors of identified personas. An expert analysis of a feature, product or workflow to identify areas for improvement outside of user research findings. These can be low, medium or high fidelity depending on the project. Empathy Map. Heuristic Evaluation.

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AoAD2 Practice: Energized Work

James Shore

Eat healthy foods, exercise, and get plenty of sleep. Creating and communicating the team’s purpose is the responsibility of team members with product management skills. People with project management skills can also help team members by pushing back on unnecessary meetings and conference calls. Forecasting.