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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. It drives continuous improvement as teams attack constraint after constraint in pursuit of perfection. It’s killing the whole business. What can I do?”

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. Eriksson, Banfield and Walkingshaw ’s book Product Leadership has a section that has a lot more detail on this topic). and of course the compensation and benefits.