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Agile Unplugged EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet

Leading Agile

So we first worked together, I guess it was probably back in like late 2009, 2010. I wasn’t actually trying to help anybody get better at software development per se, or product management per se. So— – We reconnected, yeah. I had joined Pillar for a little bit. That was kind of part of it.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

Started LeadingAgile in 2010. – [Brian] 2009, 2010? We still need to have good architecture. We still need to have good business analysis and understand what’s really important to the market. Still needed, and more and more needed, super-effective product management. You just said that.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that.

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