With this module, you'll learn the about the various stages of a company and the mindset you need to find success in each stage.
With this topic, you'll learn the influence product-market fit has on the overarching mission of a business.
- Define what product-market fit is
- State the core indicator that a business's product has reached PMF
- Assess if a business's product has reached PMF
- Theorize why PMF is the destination a business uses to set their course
- A Company's Framework to Find PMF
Article - Never Ending Road to PMF
Article - What is most important between "the market, the team, or the product?"
Article - Blue Ocean Strategy
Book ($) - Build a Story Brand
Book ($) - Business Model Generation
Book ($) - Four Steps to the Epiphany
Book ($) - Startup Owner's Manual
Book ($) - The Design of Everyday Things
Book ($) - The Mom Test
Book ($) - Value Proposition Design
Book ($) - Well Designed
Book ($)
With this topic you'll learn how to correlate the stages of a company to its journey toward product-market fit.
- State the stages of a company
- Correlate the stages of a company and their relation to product-market fit
- Recite what matters to a company at the different stages of its growth
- Stages of a Company Introduction
Resource - Lean Startup Summary
Article - "Scale": Crossing the Chasm
Book ($) - "Scale": Measure what Matters Most
Book ($) - "Start": Inspired: How to create tech products customers love
Book ($) - "Start": Jobs to be Done
Book ($) - "Start": Start with Why
Book ($) - "Start": The Lean Product Playbook
Book ($) - "Start": The Lean Startup
Book ($) - "Start": The Startup Way
Book ($) - "Start": When Coffee and Kale Compete
Book ($) - "Sustain/Shift": Blue Ocean Strategy
Book ($) - "Sustain/Shift": The Innovator's Dilemma
Book ($)
With this topic, you'll learn how a software engineer's focus may change as the goals of a product change.
- State the stages of a product's life cycle
- Correlate the stages of a product to stages of a company
- Explain what matters to a company/product team at the different stages of its product
- Theorize how the priority a product team places on various product development strategies might change through the different product stages
- Product Life Cycle Stages Introduction
Resource - The Influencing Theory Behind Product Life Cycles
Article - Product Roadmaps: Relaunched
Book ($)
With this topic, you'll learn how most companies coordinate software development between their product teams and the surrounding business.
- Describe the Agile and Waterfall software development core philosophies
- Describe the typical practices/frameworks of each philosophy
- Deduce what philosophy and practice a particular company adheres to
- Theorize what philosophy is best for "the job at hand"
- Inter-team Coordination Introduction
Resource - 12 Agile Principles
Article - Agile Frameworks
Article - Agile Manifesto
Article - Choosing the right agile framework for you
Article - Empirical Process Control
Article - Empirical vs Define Process Control
Article - Kanban Description
Article - More on Agile Frameworks
Article - Plainview's view on Agile Frameworks
Article - Process Control
Article - Product School's Agile v Waterfall Description
Article - ProductPlan's view on Agile Frameworks
Article - Scrum Guide
Article - Using Agile Scrum
Article - Waterfall Methodology
Article - Wideview of digital project manager methods/frameworks
Article - Agile Retrospectives
Book ($) - Coaching Agile Teams
Book ($) - Collaborative Intelligence: Using teams to solve hard problems
Book ($) - Creative Confidence
Book ($) - Crucial Conversations
Book ($) - Empowered: ordinary people, extraordinary products
Book ($) - Extreme Programming Explained
Book ($) - Getting Started with Kanban
Book ($) - Lean Software Development
Book ($) - Mythical Man-Month
Book ($) - Scrum: The art of doing twice the work in half the time
Book ($) - Sprint: how to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days
Book ($) - The Coaching Habit
Book ($) - User Stories Applied
Book ($)
With this topic, you'll learn how most product teams organize their composition of skill sets within the team and how a software engineer can work specifically with a product manager on their team.
- Describe the disciplines needed for balanced digital product development
- Describe the responsibilities of various "manager" roles a developer may encounter
- Explain what a developer should expect of a product manager
- Explain what a typical product manager expects of a developer on their team
- Intra-team Coordination Introduction
Resource - Agile Product Management
Article - Project Manager vs Program Manager vs Portfolio Manager
Article - What is a product owner?
Article - Agile Estimating and Planning
Book ($) - Creative Confidence
Book ($) - Everyday Business Storytelling
Book ($) - Inspired: How to create tech products customers love
Book ($) - Start with Why
Book ($) - Storytelling with Data - A data visualization guide for business professionals
Book ($) - The Making of a Manager
Book ($) - The Product Book
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