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Photo Credit: Martin Erickson http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2011/10/what-exactly-is-a-product-manager/ I’m back home after a week in India speaking at Agile India 2017. While there I had some great conversations about various roles in product development, especially those that play some part in determining the right thing to deliver. That inspired the theme for this issue of the KBPUpdate – …
A recent series of blog posts on KBP.media described different product ownership models. It occurred to me that I made a big assumption throughout the entire series – that everyone reading it was familiar with the roles that I mentioned. I also realized that I left out a role quite prevalent in digital product development …
Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/@dnevozhai Welcome to another edition of the KBP Update. This week I’m getting some things wrapped up before I head to Bangaluru next week to speak at AgileIndia 2017. I’m presenting three sessions there:Agile Leadership: Accelerating Business AgilityI’m honored to co present this full day workshop with Niel Nickolaisen and Todd Little. We’re …
Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/@jdsimcoe “Ask the right questions!” is advice that product people, especially business analysts, get quite often. I know because I’ve been known to hand out that advice quite frequently myself. Except no one seems to follow that rallying cry with any helpful information such as what the right questions might be. I know… …
What Is Socratic Questioning Socratic questioning is a dialog structured by a series of questions intended to draw out answers. First establish a thesis of what your stakeholder thinks their need is (usually expressed as a solution). Then engage in a dialog structured as a series of questions in an attempt to refute or disprove …
Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/@punttim In this week’s newsletter, we take a look at the fourth product ownership model – one that includes a product manager, product owner and business analyst. As I mentioned in the post that described it, this is a variation on a couple of other product ownership models that separate the responsibility for …
Description In this model, product responsibilities are split between three or more roles: a product manager and a product owner in the business and one or more business analysts who report up through IT. This model seems to have some inefficiencies in it, however it is quite common, especially in internal product settings. Typically the …
Description In this model, product responsibilities are split between two people both from the business area. One person is the Product Manager and focuses on market/customer concerns (more strategic, more external) and another person spends the majority of their time with the delivery team, so they are more product and development focused. (more tactical, more …
Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/@punttim This week’s newsletter takes a look at what happens when you split the responsibilities of product management and product ownership, and two models of accomplishing that split. I chose to describe two models this week (each model still gets its own post) because they are very similar, but they have a key …
Description This model is very similar to Model 2 except that the person filling the product owner role is a business analyst in the IT organization. In this model, the product responsibilities are split between the product manager and business analyst. This model often occurs in internal product situations where IT is working on a …
I’m trying a little bit different format for the newsletter this week. Instead of sharing separate posts in each of the main topics I cover on the site, I thought I’d share five posts all about the same topic. The topic for this newsletter is the product ownership model where the product manager and product …
Description In this model, the Product Manager and the Product Owner are the same person. When you combine these roles into the same person they: Set the Roadmap and identifies what needs the product will satisfy in the current, next and future time frames. This also implies Long term planning, and Communication of prioritization to …
People who help their organizations determine the right things to deliver can have a variety of job titles and can fill a variety of roles. The rise of agile approaches in general and Scrum in particular added another role to the list – Product Owner. As with everything else related to agile, the nature of …
Consultants are fond of using the phrase “it depends” when asked how to solve a specific problem. Many think consultants use that response when they don’t know the answer, or don’t want to provide it for free. In reality the consultants use that phrase to indicate the huge influence context has on how to address …
When I put together the posts for this week’s newsletter, I picked posts that take a bit of a contrarian view point. Although in some cases, the contrarian view point is the perspective that teams should have. The Outcome over Output section has two articles that highlight the disturbing trend among many organizations to loudly …
