Just in time product management resources
What Is a Stakeholder Map The stakeholder map is a technique commonly used for stakeholder analysis. Using the stakeholder map to guide conversations helps a team understand who the stakeholders for the project are, understand key characteristics about those stakeholders, and identify plans for engaging the stakeholders on an ongoing basis. Primary outcomes from a …
What Is Internal Product Management To understand what Internal product management is, it’s helpful to start by understanding what product management in general is. For that, I look to Melissa Perri, who provided one of the better definitions of product management (there are plenty) in her Product Institute Class on Product Management: “A product manager …
One of the things that the agile seems to do consistently is spark a never ending series of “this versus that” debates. Agile vs Waterfall XP vs Scrum Scrum Master vs Project Manager Scrum vs Kanban Scrum vs SAFe The latest debate is product manager vs product owner. Whatever you think of the debate, I …
Photo by Pavan Trikutam on Unsplash We’re halfway through 2017 and I have 6 months of producing the weekly KBPUpdate newsletter to reflect back on. One thing that always bugged me was the name. When I started I couldn’t come up with anything I liked better than KBPUpdate, so I just went with it. (Not …
There are differences between a minimum viable product (MVP) and minimum marketable feature (MMF), but in order to understand the difference, you need to understand the concepts, not just know their names. In this excerpt from Beyond Requirements, I describe both concepts, how they differ, and where they can be useful for product people. Minimum …
I’m spending the week with my family in Glacier National Park as part of our quest to visit every National Park in the United States so I wanted to keep this week’s update short. Here are some quick reads for product people that you may or may not want to read on your vacation. Enjoy! …
The success of products and initiatives is highly correlated with well-informed, timely decisions. As a result, decision making is one of three key activities of product ownership. When you’re the person on the team responsible for product ownership, you make sure that decisions get made. These decisions range from broad decisions about the entire product …
What Is Value Based Decision Making Value-based decision making is a method for making critical organizational decisions in an informed and timely manner. Use this tool to identify the most critical decisions you face, determine when to decide, and figure out what information you need to best make those decisions. Because critical decisions often directly …
This Friday (May 19) I’m speaking at the Iowa Business Analysis Development Day (IBADD) about product ownership. In honor of that presentation I decided to focus this week’s newsletter on product ownership and product management in practice. In my blog post for this week, I introduce three organizations that share (and probably influenced) my general …
Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/@timothymuza We are uncovering better ways of delivering solutions by doing it and helping others do it.-Paraphrase of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development Agile software development is now commonly accepted practice. It’s gotten to the point that when people talk about software development or product management they generally imply you’re using some …
Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/@providence Shared understanding. It’s about communication and it’s about agreement. Not necessarily agreement that what we’re doing is the right thing, although that can be extremely helpful. I’m talking agreement that when someone mentions a term, everyone has the same picture in their head about what that term means and why it’s relevant …
I’m excited to speak at the Southwestern Ohio Business Analysis Regional Conference (SOBARC) 2017 this week in Cincinnati, Ohio. While there, I’ll examine the product owner role, and talk about socratic questioning. If you’re going to be at SOBARC, stop by and say hi. If not, I’ll be at IBADD May 19 and Agile2017 in …
Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/@alejandroescamilla Over the past week I read through When Coffee and Kale Compete by Alan Klement to get an idea of how Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) can be applied to internal products. JTBD is the idea that people “hire” products in order to get jobs done. There’s an increasing realization that it’s …
Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/@punttim I’ve noted previously that business analysis and product management are similar activities that exist in different contexts. Business analysis (as described by IIBA) tends to be used in internal product settings whereas product management tends to be used external product settings. The two practices use different techniques. Business analysis makes much greater …
What Is Collaborative Modeling Collaborative modeling refers to the use of well-known requirements analysis and modeling techniques in a collaborative fashion to build and maintain a shared understanding of the problem space and the potential solution. The main premise is that requirements models, which have long been viewed as documentation techniques, can also be put …
