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I recently read Stephen Haines’ post titled Agile Killed Product Management, and honestly I wasn’t sure what to make of it. As I comment in my About section, I have been influenced over the years by many Product Management methodologies/frameworks because while they may take different approaches, they all focus on setting a proper foundation for the organization.
Stephen’s books and the Sequent learning approach to Product Management have played a big role in informing my thinking. So has Pragmatic Marketing and the thoughts Steve Johnson has brought to the table … including this article titled You Can’t Have Everything he happened to coincidentally post recently (or perhaps not so coincidentally).
So I tend to pay attention when these authors have something to say. But I was having a hard time wrapping my head around the first article. So what is it Stephen is trying to point out in saying Agile killed Product Management? Was the title merely something to hook readers in? Or was there something deeper to it? My thoughts on exploring the two posts follow, but before proceeding here I highly suggest you go back and read them both.
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