Re:Kanban – The Secret Engineer Killer
by bhattisatish on Sunday July 28, 2013 @11:28PM
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On the contrary in the Kanban process, PM is the pivotal role. They control the que, the cadence of feature releases, etc ...
Without an effective PM, the whole thing will fall as a pack of cards.
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True. But PM needs to pick its head up and think more broadly. A "one in one out" queue is contrary to delivering winning product.
Re:Kanban – The Secret Engineer Killer
by bhattisatish on Sunday July 28, 2013 @11:38PM
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As I have said below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6119175) You need to delink engineering releases from marketing releases. Where is it written that when the engineering releases a feature you need to make a marketing push? When you have a collection of features ready which as a whole makes sense for marketing, then you make a marketing release with all the related PR, hype cycle, etc ...