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Agile Product Development and Google

Posted on October 22, 2007 at 9:03am, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

It was interesting to read about Google’s approach to agile product development in the Sunday New York Times article titled “The Google Way: Give Engineers Room” by Bharat Mediratta; as told to Julie Bick. One of the struggles in product management is the delicate balance between the need for detailed requirements and the desire of the organization to move quickly. Provide too much definition and the project bogs down in paperwork; provide too little and the development team uses their point...read more

Tags: agile product development, gharat mediratta, google, julie bick, new york times, product management, product roadmap