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My 2021 Book Recommendations

The Product Coalition

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Yes, there are four quotes instead of just one :) This book is my number one for this year, and I will defiantly read it a few more times as it changed the way I think about strategy.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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Pre-Product Market Fit: Ten Great Books for Product People

The Product Coalition

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Learn who to listen to: “The Mum test” (Rob Fitzpatrick) This book will teach you that they’re some people you should never listen to, like your mum. Are any books missing?

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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. Poor strategy is everywhere?—?you

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How to Know if You Have A Healthy Software Development Team?

The Product Coalition

But not every product person understands how programming works and whether their team is having a healthy delivery. What should I follow in the day-to-day of a development team? First, they focus on what the team does rather than the result the team generates. What does DevOps mean to teams?

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8 Tips for Collaborating with Development Teams

Roman Pichler

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Heather Wiederstein, VP of Solutions Development (Head of Product) at Learning Ally

280 Group

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management series, I interviewed Heather Wiederstein, VP of Solutions Development (Head of Product) at Learning Ally. I joke with my team that none of us went to school to be Product Managers. I hadn’t been there for any of the requirements gathering or development. DOWNLOAD NOW.