This meeting should be an email, but will people read it?
A look at how asynchronous communication can help address the communication conundrum product managers face with too many meetings and too many emails.
Story Splitting
Story splitting is the act of examining a large backlog item and splitting it into smaller backlog items that provide value and can be delivered in a short time frame.
You can consider story splitting to be a planning technique that helps you organize your backlog into manageable chunks. You can also think of it as an analysis technique that helps you understand a particular backlog item through the act of splitting it into smaller, valuable backlog items.
Example Mapping
Example Mapping is a backlog refinement technique that helps you structure your team’s conversation around a backlog item. The conversation focuses on drawing out all of the relevant acceptance criteria (or rules), related scenarios and pertinent questions associated with the backlog item you are discussing.
Usability Testing
Usability testing is a way to test how intuitive the design, user flows and content is in your product, app or website. Usability testing consists of asking real people who are similar to potential users to perform various tasks on your product. You can use the information gained from this exercise to identify opportunities for improvement in your product’s design, user flows and content.
Sprint Reviews
Sprint Reviews exist primarily to get feedback from your stakeholders when you can’t get feedback from them during the course of a sprint.
AMA: Southeast Wisconsin IIBA
On November 17, 2020 I joined the Southeast Wisconsin Chapter of IIBA for an Ask Me Anything session focused on Business Analysis in an Agile World.
Here are the questions that came up during the session along with my answers.
Product Roadmap
A product roadmap is a statement of intent for how you are going to implement your strategy. The product roadmap is a living thing that indicates your best understanding at the point that you last updated it and it also reflects whatever uncertainty you faced when you last put it together.
Working backwards in business intelligence
The story of how I helped a team do the right amount of analysis in their business intelligence project by starting with outcomes and working backwards.
AMA: Business Analysis in an Agile Context Tips, Tricks & Pitfalls
I joined Adrian Reed In this #BACommunity webinar to discuss the Business Analysis in an agile context. Here's answers to questions asked in the webinar.
AMA: IIBA Hyderabad
Questions and answers from a Fireside Chat with the Hyderabad Chapter of International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).
The roles product people play
This post explores the product people roles of product management, product ownership and business analysis and identifies which titles fill those roles.
What is a delivery lead?
An exploration of the delivery lead role, its key responsibilities, its relevance to product people and different perspectives on the role.
A product person’s guide to remote product teams
A look at how product people can work with remote product teams. Including principles, tips for successfully working remote, interactions, and FAQs.
Discovery Sessions: Start a project off right
A look at how discovery sessions help you to get you project off to a good start by making sure your product solves the right problem.
A product person’s guide to working with SMEs
Some experience backed advice on how product people interact with subject matter experts (SME) including who should your SMEs be and how to work with them.
Build Measure Learn
The Build-Measure-Learn loop is a concept coined by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup to capture the feedback loop startups use to convert ideas into products.
7 Things product people need to know about agile
In order to provide clarity about agile techniques and practices, here are 7 things product people need to know about agile.
How to use outcomes to decide how to deliver a solution
Just about every organization I've come across struggles with finding the right product team structure. Here are some ideas from the INDUSTRY conference.
How to decide what to do using outcomes
Just about every organization I've come across struggles with finding the right product team structure. Here are some ideas from the INDUSTRY conference.
What is an agile business analyst
An excerpt from How To Be An Agile Business Analyst, a book that explores how to apply your business analysis skills in an agile manner so that your team solves the right problems with the right solutions.
How do you deal with testing issues in a sprint?
Here’s a description of how my current team approaches testing and dealing with test issues, as well as an explanation as to why we approach testing in this fashion.
How to structure your product team
Just about every organization I've come across struggles with finding the right product team structure. Here are some ideas from the INDUSTRY conference.
What is a technical product manager?
I decided to do a little bit of research to find out what this technical product manager role is all about and if it is a bit better description of the type of work I find myself drawn toward. Included in this post are some of the resources I came across to get a better understanding.
Should agile adoption be top down?
Sometimes the outcome you're asked to deliver is a reduction in staff. This post explores how to deal with mandated outcomes such as reducing staff.