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Product Roles, Part 3: Product or Feature Teams vs Project Teams

Johanna Rothman

An agile approach requires a cross-functional team. That means that everyone on the team focuses on the same intent. That intent might be an entire product. It might be a feature set as part of a larger program. But, the team focuses as a team. That cross-functional team is a product team or a feature team. I tend to call them feature teams because they might move from feature set to feature set when they work as part of a program or over time as the product evolves.

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Start-Ups and the Women Who Fund Them

Harvard Business

Shan-Lyn Ma, CEO of the wedding e-commerce company Zola, and Anu Duggal, cofounder of Female Founders Fund, talk fundraising, venture capital, and how women are driving diversity in the world of start-ups. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.

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The problem with unicorns…

Seth Godin Blog

is that there aren’t any. That’s precisely what makes them so interesting. The null set. The impossibility of it. A unicorn is not a black swan, which is a rare bird that proves a point. A unicorn is by its very nature, impossible. That’s actually not a problem. That’s the entire point. That there’s something unavailable.

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HBR Presents: After Hours

Harvard Business

Harvard Business School professors and hosts Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee discuss news at the crossroads of business and culture. In this episode, they analyze the current food delivery wars and garner some lessons in crisis management from Boeing. “After Hours” is part of HBR Presents, a new network of business podcasts curated by HBR editors.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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How AI Is Creating a New Way to Work

Cheryl Cran

Have you wondered if AI is coming for your job? What if I told you that AI is creating a NEW way to work? According to HBR report (August 2018) the truth is that AI is reshaping the future of work and how work will get done. The fusion of human and AI is creating […]. The post How AI Is Creating a New Way to Work appeared first on NextMapping.

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Workshops are not courses

Seth Godin Blog

Traditional courses, online or off, are linear. They’re based on a direct connection between the instructor’s content and the student’s attention. Write this down, memorize this, understand that. Traditional courses scale in a particular way. They scale even better when the instructor appears on video. Workshops are different. Workshops are about the cohort.

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Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation

Harvard Business

More freedom leads to more candor.

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