Once again, we’ve been nominated for an award. Last time it was for Best UK Project Management blog. Remember that? Given that we’re neither UK based, nor focused on Project [ … ]
Working with Sales and Marketing
A common question for Product Managers, is how to work effectively with other teams; in particular, Sales and Marketing. Over the coming months, I’m going to spend more time on [ … ]
The Agile Disease…
Having written a fair bit recently about Agile/Scrum, I found the following post provided an interesting perspective. The Agile Disease by Luke Halliwell I don’t agree with everything the Luke [ … ]
A 5th element for the Agile Manifesto
Robert Martin gave a keynote at the Agile 2008 conference. Entitled Quintessence, he talked about adding a 5th element to the Agile Manifesto. His suggestion was: Craftsmanship over Crap After [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto – A Success
Today, we held the first ProductCamp Toronto downtown at the Ted Rogers School of Business. About 100 people showed up in the morning to listen and participate. Some of them [ … ]
Is Product Management Agile?
There’s a lot of talk about Agile Product Management these days, and for obvious reasons. The thinking is that because of Agile development, Product Managers need to change how they [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Roadmaps
By Saeed Khan A common question that come up when discussing Agile/Scrum is how to develop and maintain a product roadmap in an Agile environment. The confusion seems to come [ … ]
Motto for ProductCamp Toronto
Hey, here’s a little contest. Suggest a motto for ProductCamp Toronto and if we use it, we’ll send you a ProductCamp Toronto t-shirt with the motto. You don’t even have [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto Update
ProductCamp Toronto is fast approaching. It is on November 2, 2008 at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto. It’s an unconference. Participants get to [ … ]
The value of Scrum
Richard from AgileCommons.org left an interesting comment to one of my Agile/Scrum/PM posts that I think is worth discussing. I agree with some of what he said, but of course, [ … ]