Category: product-management
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Design Sprints: A Practical Guide For Beginners
Based on the book “Sprint” by Jake Knapp Imagine spending six months building a product, only to discover users don’t want it. It happens more often than anyone likes to admit. A Design Sprint offers a different approach: a five-day process that helps teams solve big problems and test new ideas…
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The Comical Chaos of OKRs in the Office
The OKR That Never Was (A Satire) It was a typical Monday morning in the office. The air was filled with the sound of keyboards clacking and the smell of freshly brewed coffee. But then, Jasmine from HR barged into our daily standup meeting like she had just seen the…
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The Power of Storytelling
Storytelling > Product Specs We like to believe that facts drive change.Dashboards, metrics, adoption curves, and defect counts all seem perfectly rational. And yet, every major transformation we’ve lived through tells a different story. Facts tell us what is happening.They rarely tell us what must change next.And they almost never…
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Who Owns JIRA-1138? (Definitely Not Me)
Product Management Circus: A Backlog Refinement Satire A Sprint Refinement Satire Sprint: 134 Team: “Agile Avengers” Meeting: Sprint Refinement (a.k.a. “Let’s Pretend We’ll Do This”) Time: 2:00 PM (or whenever the last person remembers to join Zoom) Cast of Characters Scrum Master (Rita): Keeper of the Timebox. Product Owner (Dan):…
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InnerSourcing (Part 2): Key Players in an Organisation
Explore Contributors, Trusted Committers, and Core Maintainers In this three-part series, In continuation of my last article on InnerSource (busting the myths), I am presenting a new article that talks about: So, let’s start. 1. Contributors These are the developers from various business units who use the developer tooling platform and contribute…
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Dev & Ops Working in Silos: Blame Game -A Workplace Story
How Adopting a DevOps Culture Can Offer a Quick Solution “Don’t be a hero; software development is about the team’s success.” — DevOps is all about teamwork! Blaming individuals hinders progress. When we focus on shared responsibility, it fosters better communication and more effective problem-solving within the team. The Story…
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Must-Listen Product Management Podcasts for the PMs
According to Wiki, A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. Typically, a podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files that users can download to a personal device or stream to listen to at their convenience. So, you’ve landed your first Product Manager job? Congratulations!…
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Vibe Coding: Is It Here to Stay, or Just a Fleeting Trend?
The future of software developer experience The tech world is no stranger to buzzwords, and “vibe coding” has been making the rounds. But is it just the latest fad, or does it represent a fundamental shift in how we approach software development? Let’s explore this idea without diving too deeply…
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FreePrints: Business Model
FreePrints: Product Tear Down FreePrints is a popular app that delivers free photo prints while combining convenience with quality and value for its users. This independent review of FreePrints is presented to the Product Management community. Business Model FreePrints uses a freemium business model that provides users with 45 free 4×6 prints each…