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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences.

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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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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

Because we stand for premium products and high quality, we will undermine our global brands if we compete in low-cost markets. Leverage global resources: Paliwal recruited several of the more open-minded members of the legacy engineering culture to join the India LGT. Worse, we risk cannibalizing our premium offerings.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Their product development teams followed a traditional software development method – called “ Waterfall ” – in which they spent months defining customer requirements and functional specifications, coding the software, and testing it for quality and reliability. The rise of cloud computing changed all this.

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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. These requirements were put into a ticket queue as tasks for the next available engineer to start working on. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.