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Specializing Generalist
Agile / People management / Process Improvement / Software development

Specializing Generalist

Posted on: February 1, 2012July 25, 2023

The ideal agile team is made up of specializing generalists – but what does that really mean? The goal isn’t to prevent functional silos of expertise, it is to allow people to cover for each other.

People management / Product Management

Product Management Certification

Posted on: July 8, 2008

Should product managers get certifications? Ask a Good Product Manager asked us to answer.

People management / Requirements / Requirements gathering

Mozilla Director of Product Management Blog

Posted on: June 20, 2006June 21, 2006

The director of product management at Mozilla (makers of firefox) has started a blog, Sherman’s Blog, about how Mozilla approaches product management. From the first post on the Role of Product Management by (Mr.?) Sherman, I think this blog is likely to be one to watch.

Consulting / Lists / People management / Requirements

Five Measures of Product Manager Performance

Posted on: January 30, 2006August 31, 2009

Joy posted a really good article last week at Seilevel’s requirements defined blog, Measuring product manager performance on internal system products. Her post is a followup to an extensive and heated debate that happened last fall on the Austin PMM forum. It’s a great forum to subscribe to – a […]

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