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 [ … ]
Category: Collaboration
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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, [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Management (part 4)
So, here it is, finally, part 4 of this series. Sorry for the gap since part 3 (and 3a), but work and life have a habit of keeping me busy. [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Management (part 3a)
Chris posted the following comment to Part 3 of this series. Look forward to pt. 4, because so far pt. 3 has done little to bring clarity to the issue. [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto — Date AND Location
ProductCamp Toronto is taking shape. The Wiki has a lot of updated information: over 60 people have indicated they will attend 40 proposed topics are listed and best of all, [ … ]
Product Management is everything!
In 1991, Regis McKenna wrote a seminal article entitled Marketing is Everything that was published in the Harvard Business Review. The article paints a picture of technology as an agent [ … ]
Agile/Scrum Software Development and Product Management part 2
There have been a number of good comments on my original post on this subject and I thought, given that the Agile 2008 conference is happening here in Toronto this [ … ]
Forget research, let’s build something! – Redux
I’m somewhat surprised that I didn’t receive even one comment — for or against — on my post entitled Forget research, let’s build something!. As Product Managers, we regularly talk [ … ]