Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Why Technical Debt Matters for Product People. As the person in charge of the product, you may not be terribly concerned about how clean and well-structured the code is. But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1].

Innovation 101

Innovation Digital User Experience Documentation 101

280 Group

DECEMBER 3, 2018

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Soni Meinke, VP Corporate Product at Optum, a Division of United Health Group. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. How did you get into Product Management? I actually graduated with a Communications and English Writing degree and got a job at a newspaper right out of college.

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Product Management Product Management 93

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 6, 2018

? ?. This talk covers techniques and approaches to developing and communicating roadmaps to your organization. Balancing Agility and predictability in a roadmap is a challenge, and stakeholders require transparency in order to effectively drive organizations forward. Product teams that efficiently deliver value to market require the flexibility to make decisions using the latest discovery and learning, while giving their team time to plan for the product’s direction.

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Juice Analytics

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The following scene is one of the most pivotal moments in the Game of Thrones series. As a loyal viewer , this scene represents a turning point for Tyrion. He has reached a breaking point after a lifetime of conflict with his father. His speech is the moment that he sets out on a different path, a path that ultimately leads to (spoiler) the murder his father and (unsurprisingly) a deep schism with his family.

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Visualization 58

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Business Analysis Hub

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Introduction. First of all, let’s get this out of the way. Gamestorming is not new. Gamestorming is a collection of ‘games’ put together under the banner of ‘gamestorming’. As a business analyst (BA) I can assure you there will be many games in the book and on the website, that you have used in your role under different guises. Dave Gray (co-author of ‘ gamestorming’ ) put it best when he described himself and his fellow authors as the Grimms brothers.

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Stakeholder Management Business Analysis Business Analysis Visualization 52

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 6, 2018

A few weeks ago, Dennis Stevens and I recorded a podcast called Building an Organizational System That Can Embrace Change. The podcast introduced three critical concepts which we are exploring at a deeper level in additional interviews. In this episode of SoundNotes, Dennis Stevens, LeadingAgile’s co-founder and Chief Methodologist, and Dave Prior, dig into one of those key concepts: How to design an execution model that can provide feedback which can then be incorporated back into the strategic

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Planning 54

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In slide #9 of this deck about using cycle time analytics in forecasting, Troy Magennis shows that when four people plan to meet for dinner, there is only one chance in 16 that all four will arrive on time. Typical corporate management thinking would solve this problem by creating a Department of Dinner Planning and promulgating detailed procedures, based on Industry Best Practices, to ensure people arrived on time for each dinner.

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Government IBM Maintenance IBM Support Planning 105

Actian

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The previous blogs in this series discussed the top 5 pitfalls of traditional data warehouses and defined the Operational Data Warehouse (ODW ) as a potential solution. Below is a list of my Top 10 desirable benefits of an effective ODW: Current: Having the data being continuously updated by micro batches or streamed singleton updates throughout the day provides the most current information for analytics-based decision making.

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