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Return On Investment: How Long Do You Have To Demonstrate A Return?

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Last week I wrote a blog post entitled “Return on Investment: Less Important Than Many Think?” As is turns out, less organizations than you might think actively use return on …

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ROI – Less Important Than Many Think?

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Return on Investment (ROI) is the lifeblood of everything your organization does, right? Or is it? Product managers and product executives often relate how they spend time and energy developing …

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How Actionable Are Your Product Team’s Requirements?

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Where Does Your Team Fall On The Requirements Continuum? Regardless of methodology used only 15% of product teams indicate that they benefit from consistently actionable requirements. Nearly two-thirds of survey responders indicate …

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Training’s ROI According to Andy Grove

In 2014, Agile, Business Analysis, News, Product Management, Product Management Consulting, Product Management Facts, Product Management Training, Product Marketing, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Management, Scrum, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, Uncategorized, Updates by [email protected]

I recently started a book by Ben Horowitz entitled “The Hard Thing About Hard Things.” Ben covers a wide range to topics which are particularly pertinent to CEO’s and entrepreneurs …

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Waterfall’s Steady Decline and Evolution

In 2014, Agile, Business Analysis, Lean, News, Product Management, Product Management Consulting, Product Management Facts, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Management, Scrum, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, Uncategorized, Updates by [email protected]

While Waterfall is far from dead there is no doubt that it is on a steady decline. In fact, a little over 10% of this year’s survey respondents indicate that …

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Is Your Product Team Part of the 10%?

In 2013, 2014, Agile, Business Analysis, Lean, Mojo, News, Product Management, Product Management Consulting, Product Management Facts, Product Management Training, Product Marketing, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Management, Scrum, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, Updates, User Experience by [email protected]

Each year Actuation Consulting conducts a global study of product team performance. This will be the third year we have conducted our study. As I write this, we are putting …