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Workshop by Design Canvas: Making Collaboration Work

EBG Consulting

The heart of successful product management and product development is a collaborating community of team members operating with shared goals, mutual trust, and learning mechanisms for evolving products and processes. I have found one of the best ways to create a healthy product community is with facilitated workshops.

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How Project Leaders Can Guide Their Projects Through Times of Change

The Uncommon League

Some of these you won’t be able to anticipate, like a pandemic, but most you can plan for. Confronting change is especially difficult if project plans aren’t inherently flexible. An inflexible plan throws up roadblocks that inhibit project leaders from adjusting quickly.

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Project Managers: How To Lead a Human-Centered Design Team

The Uncommon League

Participants tend to seek additional opportunities for sharing, as well as for personal and professional growth," says business and tech writer Moira Alexander , founder of PMWorld 360 Magazine. Encourage your team to examine the product idea from every angle, and keep good notes your team can read as the discussion unfolds.

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The T-Shaped Product Manager

Roman Pichler

To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As the name suggests, product-specific capabilities are limited to a single product or product portfolio. These skills are not specific to an individual product, but transferable.

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150+ Top Global Cloud Thought Leaders and Next Generation Leaders of 2021

Whizlabs

” He chose the name of the blog from the Arctic Monkeys song, Old Yellow Bricks, and is a must read for anyone who is planning on expanding their career in cloud computing or virtualization. Vanessa Alvarez – Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, Co-Founder of Nexme. The blog has been rated #1 by Inc.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

And so we ended up with a lot of folks doing standups and sprint planning and story cards and sticky notes and burndown charts and reviews and retrospectives. We want a culture that values responding to change over, following a plan that want to manifest the lines. We want a culture where people take ownership.

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