By Saeed Khan and Heather Searl Parts 1 and 2 of this series covered a number of topics including working with other teams, organizational structures, personas and common documents. This [ … ]
Category: Agile Development
The 3 biggest problems in Product Management today – Part 1 – Roles
by Saeed Khan As Product Managers, part of our job is to observe, understand and correlate information about our customers, prospects, markets, competitors and organizations. We then take the insight [ … ]
Stories about users and User Stories
by Steve Johnson, Under 10 Consulting For agile teams, the biggest area of friction for agile teams is agreement on what constitutes a story. Product managers and product owners try [ … ]
User stories should be implementation free
By Steve Johnson, Under 10 Consulting In my ebook From Agile to Agile I quoted from a post on Mark Levison’s ScrumMaster Tales: As a first time book buyer I [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Roadmap Planning – Top Down View
By Rivi Aspler Acknowledging the fact that roadmap planning actually deals with the planning and then the daily monitoring of budgetary items that are competing over a limited budget (total [ … ]
Roadmap Planning – Bottom Up View
By Rivi Aspler A product roadmap can be easily compared to an ambitious architectural plan. Very much like a new type of building, the product roadmap should draw a vision [ … ]
A Product Management Flow Chart
By Rivi Aspler Getting a new product manager on board, I realized recently that there are so many tasks to handle that one can easily get lost. On one hand, [ … ]
The Challenge – Planning a Full Year Roadmap When Working with Agile
By Rivi Aspler Moving from Waterfall to Agile mode of work encompassed many advantages. I will not dwell into these advantages as there are so many posts, articles and books [ … ]