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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. By 2001, I was running Product Management at a different company. I had never heard of Agile.

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Agile Sprint: how it brings efficiency to your business

mjvinnovation

Agile is, first and foremost, a philosophy that emerged from the Agile Manifesto when a small group of people gathered in 2001 to discuss their feelings about the traditional approach to managing software development projects. What are Agile Practices. Cultural change of the seed through delivery. More agility.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Company Executives are increasingly compelled to report profit in percentage terms so naturally they promote and reward the behaviours that increase margins.