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Should Product Teams Understand Their Product’s Sales Cycle?

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

The Product Team’s Knowledge of the Sales Cycle While the data show the majority of product teams have managed to strike a strong relationship with their organization’s sales team, with only occasional …

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Are Project Managers Valued Anymore?

In 2014, Agile, Business Analysis, Lean, 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, User Experience by [email protected]

The project management profession has been evolving alongside the emergence of Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, which has forced a degree of professional self-reflection on the role of the project manager in an Agile …

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Product Development Process Adoption: Can the Past Predict the Future?

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

What Our Product Development Process Adoption Data Shows We have been tracking adoption rates for a variety of product development processes since 2012. This is the first year that we …

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Product Development Methods: Is Agile The Most Widely Used?

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

We began tracking product development methodology adoption rates back in 2012, the first year we launched our global Study of Product Team Performance. Much has changed since 2012. Over the …

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ROI – Less Important Than Many Think?

In 2014, Agile, 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 by [email protected]

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 …

The Most Utilized Product Development Methodologies in 2013

In 2013, 2014, Agile, Business Analysis, Lean, Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Management, Scrum, The Study of Product Team Performance, Uncategorized, User Experience by [email protected]

Methods Used for Product Development Our market research in 2013 illustrates that Blended (one that incorporates some waterfall and some Agile) is chosen most often (43%) by our survey respondents as …