When evaluating a product, a customer may see the product as special, adequate, inadequate, or awful. What is uncomfortable for product teams is they have no control over how the customer sees the product. They only have influence. What teams need to learn is how to approach creating the product […]
Agile / Product Management / Transformation / Uncategorized
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Orienting to Value
Orienting to value – every team, every person does it differently. How you orient to value limits how much value you can create. People with a naive orientation can only scratch the surface, cogs in someone else’s machine; those with a refined orientation to value, well, there is no limit to what they can do.
Agile / Organizations / Product Management / Product Strategy
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Epic Problem Statement
When solving complex problems at scale, we use epics, features, and stories to align, focus, and coordinate the work of multiple teams to achieve the objectives of our organizations. An epic represents the investment decision to solve a tangible problem; a collection of epics together represent a broader investment decision […]
Agile / Product Management
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The Potential of Agile
The pop-culture concept of a silver bullet – a simple solution to a hard problem – is a dangerous idea. It can be used to over-promise, and doom a team to under-delivery. When an executive, too far removed from what makes creating products hard thinks of “agile” as a silver […]
Agile / Prioritization / Product Management / Product Strategy / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / User Stories
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Agile at Scale – Outcome Driven (or Broken)
An organization attempting to use agile processes at scale must be outcome driven – without intentionality the system of delivery breaks down and operates no better than waterfall.
Agile / Product Management / Product Strategy / Requirements / UX
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Product Owner Manager – Alone Together
Can one person be both product manager and product owner? With two people, where are the role boundaries? How should you think about it?
Agile / Business Analysis / Product Management / Software development
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Product Owner Survival Camp
Product owners are likely to find themselves alone in the organizational wilderness. Their organizations expect them to connect the towers of long-term strategic planning with the frontiers of great new products. Iterative and incremental development of solutions can bring these two worlds together. There’s always a gap between strategy and […]
Agile / Prioritization / Product Management / Product Strategy / Software development
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Features do not a Product Roadmap Make
Last month, Mike Smart of Egress Solutions and I gave a webinar for Pragmatic Marketing on product roadmapping when working in agile environments. We had a great turnout of over 1500 people in the session – with not nearly enough time to answer all of the questions. One attendee asked, […]
Agile / Kano Analysis / Prioritization / Product Management / Product Strategy / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development
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Good Enough
We hear a lot about building products which are “good enough” or “just barely good enough.” How do we know what “good enough” means for our customers? No one really tells us.