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Four Factors That Contribute to High Performance on Product Teams

In 2015, Agile, Business Analysis, Innovation, Lean, Marketing, Product Management, Product Management Facts, Product Marketing, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Connections, Project Management, Recruitment, Ron Lichty, Scrum, Sean Van Tyne, sensor six, Strategy, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, Uncategorized, User Experience by [email protected]Leave a Comment

This week we released our fourth annual Study of Product Team Performance. As always, we gleaned a wide range of valuable insights into what enables some teams to overachieve and others …

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Satisfaction: Just How Satisfied Are Product Team Members?

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There’s no getting around the fact that product team members have been under pressure to do more with less for a sustained period of time. While the pressure brought on …

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Do Product Teams Really Incorporate Best Practices?

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This is a question we have been asking ourselves for some time. Actuation Consulting has been conducting a worldwide study of product teams for three years and respondents continually tell …

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Where Should User Experience (UX) Report To Be Most Effective?

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Two weeks ago I wrote a post on the importance of product management and user experience collaboration entitled “Where is the Line Between User Experience and Product Management?“. I’m a strong …

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Where’s the Line Between User Experience and Product Management?

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I trace the increasing acceptance and implementation of high quality user experience (UX) to what I call the “Apple wave.” Apple’s emphasis on the quality of the user experience transformed …

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Global Study of High Performance Product Teams

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For the past three years Actuation Consulting, along with a wide array of sponsors and industry associations, has conducted a global study of product team performance. The findings from our annual study …