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Product Management – What Is It and How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Product managers have a dynamic role within companies, sitting at the intersection between business leaders, customers, engineers, and designers. They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. What is a Product? Managing the Product Lifecycle.

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Easier Product Development Decisions and Why Backlogs Might Slow You Down (Day 3)

Johanna Rothman

I want to make those interruptions easier to manage. I finished all the video editing for the writing workshop. At some point today, I plan to upload the videos to teachable. I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. What happened?

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8 Tips for Running a Productive Virtual Meeting

Tom Spencer

In this post, I will share my learnings on running virtual meetings to help you be more productive remotely. Setting the right time frame can really help to make your meeting more productive by reducing the likelihood of getting off track. This generally involves making sure your audio and video work as expected.

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Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video)

Johanna Rothman

We didn't address this as much because I wrote about this in Manage Your Project Portfolio. That debt is management decision debt. In the video, we offered several ideas, mostly about moving to rolling wave and just-in-time planning. Management Debt, Technical Debt, and Decision-Making. Long and large roadmaps.

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How Cycle Time and Cost of Delay Makes Product Development Decisions Easier (Day 2)

Johanna Rothman

I finished one week of the videos for the writing workshop. Finish another week of videos for the writing workshop because I want to announce it “soon.” My cost of delay means that my first job is to finish the video editing for the writing workshop. (I I use Screenflow to take my Zoom videos and edit them.

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How to Eliminate the Whirlwind & Increase Productivity

Rick Conlow

Many managers harp on the all-too-disorderly whirlwind way of doing business these days. And what does all of this have to do with managing others? 2 Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. 2 More Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. So, where do we draw the line? Pulling It All Together.

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An Illuminating Conversation with Tobias Schlottke About Modern Management

Johanna Rothman

I had a chance to speak with Tobias Schlottke on his Alphalist podcast: Episode 92: Johanna Rothman The Pragmatic Manager. We had a wide-ranging conversation, mostly about management. We also touched on many of the topics in the Modern Management Made Easy books. I hope you listen. As you can hear, we smiled and laughed a lot.