By Rivi Aspler Let’s be honest, if you were the only one in your market to sell a product, and your customers didn’t have a real BATNA (Best Alternative to a [ … ]
Ramping Up a New Product – This is where you really Start to Sweat!
By Rivi Aspler You have been working like hell for the past few months. You have been gathering requirements, prioritizing, defining, following up, getting everyone aligned, facing constraints and hence [ … ]
How Important (really) is ‘Business Value’ to your Backlog Prioritization?
By Rivi Aspler Agile teams rely on a prioritized backlog to guide their work. Ideally, when your product owner defines a product backlog item, he or she should focus on [ … ]
Building Your Own Product – Isn’t Always the Best Strategy
By Rivi Aspler Adding a new product to your product portfolio is usually discussed whenever you want to create a product-based competitive differentiation or when you need to fill a [ … ]
My Agile Product Backlog Template
By Rivi Aspler When I started using Agile, I was looking for a good backlog template. Naturally, I found several examples online, each very different from one another and none that [ … ]
Defining Millennial-Friendly Products
By Rivi Aspler I’ll admit that for the past few years, I disregarded trends such as the social enterprise, consumerism or gamification. The ‘Big-Data’ notion was the only trend that I [ … ]
Zero Based Budgeting as a Tool to Set Your Products Strategy
By Rivi Aspler Have you ever thought of taking the financial method of Zero Based Budgeting and applying it to products portfolio budgeting decisions? Privileged with the opportunity to rethink [ … ]
Is Your Product Ready to Be Released?
By Rivi Aspler When is a product ready to be released? The answer depends on many things, but quite significantly, it depends on who is answering the question. If you [ … ]
Product Strategy in Light of the Sunk Cost Dilemma
By Rivi Aspler Wikipedia defines a sunk cost dilemma as: a dilemma of having to choose between continuing a project of uncertain prospects already involving considerable sunk costs, or discontinuing [ … ]