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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

From creating a meeting agenda to establishing a standard format for decision documents to holding in-person meetings instead of meetings by phone, there are proven techniques to drive efficiency that can be learned and adopted. Efficiency People’s time is a valuable commodity not to be wasted.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

A presentation developed for a conference does not produce much value until it is actually presented, an event which may occur weeks or months after the document is completed. In collaborations systems, for instance, don''t overly engineer processes so that they constrain a system''s ability to adapt. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Why Agile Goes Awry — and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. Working software over comprehensive documentation. Similarly, documentation often trumps working software. The bar for documentation to keep the queue moving became high.