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The goal of recruiting evangelists is to build a community around your product.
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203 |
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Almost anyone, short of a psychopath, can be an evangelist for a product that moves her soul.
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213 |
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…the middles and bottoms of organizations contain most of the intelligence, and intelligence is necessary to appreciate innovative products.
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245 |
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There internalization of your product’s way of doing things is a powerful way to make it endure.
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267 |
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The bottom line is that you should do everything you can to foster an ecosystem around your product.
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280 |
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…people will stick by products that aren’t the latest and greatest if they’re well supported.
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280 |
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The product owner role, or any similar role such as the XP customer representative, is arguably the critical success factor for an agile team.
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072 |
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Many of the challenges agile teams encounter can be traced back to an unavailable, disengaged, or indecisive product owner.
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072 |
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Agile fiction and coding-centric thinking makes us believe that an omniscient product owner magically conjures well-forced, right-sized rocks for a team.
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141 |
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…if the team is genuinely expected to be a product development team, we must work to minimize non-roadmapped rocks.
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175 |