Agile • 1 min read Product Management Helps Us Build the RIGHT Things Product Elevation invited me to remotely join their Dublin meetup Topic: “Product Management Helps Us Build the RIGHT Things” When:…
Agile • 4 min read I’ve abandoned “MVP” After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term…
Agile • 1 min read How Agile + Product Management helps build the RIGHT things the RIGHT Way What: Enterprise Agile San Francisco Bay Area Meetup Topic: “Product Management Helps Us Build the RIGHT Things; Agile Helps Us…
Agile • 6 min read My Stories Are Too Short… I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and their product managers) must continually experiment their…
Agile • 1 min read IoT Product Podcast: You Can’t Outsource Strategy Daniel Elizalde focuses on product management tools and training for IoT and also offers a top-rated in-person course at Stanford.…
Agile • 3 min read Product Spending and Implied Strategy Following on my last post on product strategy/prioritization and pie charts… here’s another way to apply the same…
Agile • 5 min read Prioritization Requires Strategy I just spent a couple of hours with a mentee, newly promoted to Director of Product Management at a company…
Agile • 4 min read Conway’s Law for Product Organizations Conway’s Law is an old but useful idea: the organizational structure of software development teams is reflected in the…
Agile • 7 min read Enhancement Requests are Personal and Political, Not Just Analytical As deeply data-driven, analytical product managers (or product owners or business analysts or development leads), we’d like to pretend…
Agile • 7 min read We Don’t Hire Product Owners Here When software companies are short of developers (or architects or test automation engineers or DevOps experts or technical writers or…
Agile • 1 min read Roadmap Process or Roadmap Results? Listening to concerns from a client about an unsatisfying roadmapping process… his main issue was wanting a better roadmap: one…
Agile • 7 min read 5 Market-Facing Skills for (Some) Agile Product Owners This completes a long three-post series (1,2) proposing a skills model for product owners, partly borrowed from market-facing product…