by Steve Johnson If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there.—George Harrison When I started a new job as a product manager, my company president said, [ … ]
Category: Development
Help! I’m a secretary to development
Or, Why a developer can’t also be product manager In small companies—and in some not-so-small companies—the development lead often serves as the product leader or product manager. Is this a [ … ]
How to Know When You’re Ready for Beta
by Emily Hossellman Beta testing is a key part of product development, but it can be difficult to get the timing right. Product teams are often pressured to get new [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Releases, Roadmaps and Visions
By Saeed Khan Roadmaps are always a popular topic when discussing products. I can’t tell you how many times people ask whether something is “on the product roadmap”. One of [ … ]
The Fine Line Between Strategy and Fantasy
A favourite topic of many entrepreneurs, product managers, marketers and executives is strategy. You hear it all the time. People talking about company strategy, product strategy, marketing strategy, sales strategy [ … ]
Why the “Backlog Manager” fits best for Scrum focused ISVs
by Saeed Khan I’ve written a lot lately about the dissonance in the way Scrum defines the “Product Owner” role and responsibilities and the reality of what occurs in many [ … ]
A new (and better) definition for Product Owner
by Saeed Khan Last week’s post entitled “The Scrum Title ‘Product Owner’ must die!” on changes to the Scrum “Product Owner” title and responsibilities drew a lot of comments and [ … ]
The Scrum Title “Product Owner” must die!
by Saeed Khan There was a tweet this past weekend that caught my eye. It said something like “The Product Owner on one page”. It was retweeted many times. When [ … ]
Worth Repeating: How to be a GREAT Product Manager
by Saeed Khan Back in 2007, just a couple of months after we started this blog, I wrote a series of 6 articles under the banner: How to be a [ … ]