Agile is not magical. Changing from a waterfall process to an agile process changes how your team works, and helps eliminate inefficiencies. Adopting an agile process does not let you magically have a more successful product. What makes agile powerful is also makes it dangerous.
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Tagged Agile, Product Management, product owner, urgency, waterfall
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How is SaaS Changing Product Management – A Research Thesis
Paddy Barrett in Ireland is preparing his Master’s thesis on Product Management and would like to interview (USA) state-side product managers for his primary research.  It would be awesome if you could help him, and help us all.
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Tagged cloud, prodmgmt, Product Management, research, saas
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Whole Product Game
How can Theodore Levitt’s classic Whole Product approach help with defining a product roadmap? Â I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams.
Why Write Requirements
There is a lot of advice out there for how to write requirements. There is not as much discussion about why to write requirements. Spend some time thinking about why you write requirements before you make decisions about how to write your requirements.
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Is Agile Really Cheaper?
There are several ways to answer the question “is agile cheaper than waterfall?” Here are two of my favorites:
“It depends. Agile done well is cheaper, as long as you measure correctly.”
“You’re asking the wrong question. The right question is: is agile better?”
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