A well-prioritized agile backlog not only makes release and iteration planning easier, it broadcasts all the things your team intends to spend time on—including internal work that the customer will ne
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Sep 17, 2014 Why Companies Need Full-Time Product Managers (And What They Do All Day) About The Author Rian is passionate about designing and building software that people love to use. After spending
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About this article By Terrence Caldwell , published August 31st, 2015 Creating a collaborative product requirement We've written quite a bit about the conundrum of writing requirements in an agile env
One of the key objectives of a project inception is to collect requirements collaboratively. But, many times, it is difficult to decide where to start and what to focus on. Story mapping is an engagin
Summary: A product requirements document (PRD) defines the requirements of a particular product, including the product’s purpose, features, functionality, and behavior. It serves as a guide for busine
Last month Benedict Evans observed that The Best is the Last : A technology often produces its best results just when it’s ready to be replaced — it’s the best
Welcome to a new Wait But Why thing: the mailbag. I get a lot of email from readers asking great questions, and there’s just not time to give most of them a proper answer. Unless, of course, I do a fu
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Mathieu Dutour Follow Mar 9, 2016 · 6 min read Version control is a system which records and stores every change made to a set of files, so that you can go back to a previous state at any time. Develo
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Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Idea in Brief The Problem Agile methods such as scrum, kanban, and lean development are spreading beyond IT to other functions. Although some companies are scoring big impr
Think back — way back — to a time before mobile. You bought clothes, booked trips, followed driving directions, found lost items, snapped photos, discovered music, kept up with old friends, and made n
Michael Nunez, reporting for Gizmodo: But if you really want to know what Facebook thinks of journalistsand their craft, all you need to do is look at what happened whenthe company quietly assembled s
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by Cecily Carver And what I’ve learned from teaching others Before you learn to code, think about what you want to code Knowing how to code is mostly about building things, and the path is a lot clear
What is the role of a product manager? The best product managers are visionaries. You guide the success of a product and lead the cross-functional team that is responsible for improving it. This is an
How can I learn to be a product manager? If someone had asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up, chances are that you did not say "I want to be a product manager." And most likely, product ma
Introduction to product management Product management is vital to delivering innovations and driving business growth. It is an important organizational role that is growing in popularity. For example,
Every year, Larry and Sergey write a Founders' Letter to our stockholders updating them with some of our recent highlights and sharing our vision for the future. This year, they decided to try somethi
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Summary Facebook recently poached Regina Dugan from Google, where she headed their Advanced Technology and Products Group. Facebook has demonstrated it can attract and retain talent. Its executive tea
Marek Minor Apr 20, 2016 · 7 min read After working 4 years in the field of digital design I got obsessed with tidying up and sorting information. This lead to the creation of a systematic approach fo
Amy Thibodeau Apr 12, 2016 · 7 min read Empathy Picture by The Shopping Sherpa on Flickr. Empathy is a buzzword in the tech industry. Although it’s important to work to understand the needs of the hum
Gone are the days when designers did all their UI/UX concepts in Photoshop. Now, they’re being called on to code their mockups. But how do you introduce designers to code if they’ve never programmed b
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Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images It is considered the height of sophistication to declare that “America doesn’t want to talk about race.” I say it’s time to retire this phrase. Imagine being from a foreign
If you’ve been following web development over the past few years, you will no doubt have noticed that JavaScript frameworks are an increasingly popular way to build web applications. Although there ar
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