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3 essays on product

  1. PO Role: Most have it ⛔️WRONG when it comes to the PO role

    There’s a widespread belief that the Product Owner handles writing user stories (partly true), and helps the team clarify requirements. That’s not right! At least, not the whole truth, not even the most important tasks for PO’s. There’s a much more important aspect of the PO role, that has nothing to do with User Stories, …

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  2. Only build products you would *NEED* to buy!

    This may be the reason why so many people love Apple. This thing is that those that build Apple products love the products they build! If it happens to be a failure? So what? Let’s build another one that will not be a failure. Steve Jobs clearly has an influence on this culture because he …

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  3. Apple vs. Nokia, spot the differences

    Being in Finland I’d love for Nokia to continue to be a big player in the mobile phone and mobile Internet access market. I lover their N810 device (just don’t get why they did not put a GSM chip in it…), and have been a loyal customer of their mobile phones. But that is about …

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