Just in time product management resources
I found the following on Liz Keogh’s site and found that I agreed with it quite strongly. To show my agreement, I’m posting it here. I am a member of a community of thinkers. I believe that communities exist as homes for professionals to learn, teach, and reflect on their work. I challenge each community …
In a recent blog post I predicated that within the year PMI would come out with a Requirements Management Certification. In the interest of full disclosure and learning from our mistakes, I’m writing here to acknowledge I was wrong (how many other people making predictions do you see do that?) Well, I was sort of …
Chris Matts recently wrote a post about Time to Value as an Outcome based Process Metric . I have some thoughts about the topic and decided to write them up here. I could have recorded a comment, but based on past history with my comments on Chris’ post (he accidentally deleted it), I decided to …
This morning (November 22, 2013) I had the opportunity to be involved in a very unique discussion. SkillsMatter hosted the Agile Testing & BDD Exchange in London. The format of this particular conference was to have a series of sessions that featured two or more presenters teaming up to cover a particular topic. Chris Matts …
I am proud to be a part of a new program in the Agile Alliance – Analysis and Product Management in Agile that was formed with the purpose of providing a way for practitioners in the business analysis and product management communities to share stories, questions, and puzzles about using those skills in an agile …
I keep a casual eye on a variety of LinkedIn Discussion groups. A couple of years ago, I chimed in on a discussion on the Business Analyst Times Linked In Group posing the question “Why do very good Business Analysts NOT want to become Project Managers ? Let’s discuss the reasons for this.“ My first …
I like to think of myself as an entrepreneur. My business mostly consists of some form of consulting, and when I consult it usually has something to do with business analysis. That combination of perspectives certainly colors my thinking and causes me to see connections between those different domains. For example, I have often thought …
A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking of the reason why many organizations are choosing to adopt agile, and how they may be setting themselves up disappointment. When organizations approach me for help adopting agile software development, one of the first things I do is ask “Why?” The usual answer is that they …
I originally introduced Arthur in this article for Agile Connections. Arthur is a middle manager and product owner in a medium-sized insurance company who has been assigned to take on an agile project. For those unfamiliar with agile, the terminology and techniques of agile approaches can seem strange and often a little silly when not …
Organizations are impacted on a daily basis by decisions made by people at every level. Even the most minute seeming tactical decisions can have an impact on the overall organization. Successful organizations realize this and look for ways to align the decision making at all parts of the organization so that the people who are …
I’m in the midst of a two week stretch of conferencing. The week of October 29 – November 2nd I was at the Building Business Capability Conference in Fort Lauderdale. The conference markets itself as 5 different conferences for the price of 1 and even goes to the trouble of creating the concept of five …
A recent experience I had made me wonder why we come up with new labels for things and what we hope to accomplish with them. In this case, it was the idea that Chris Matts originally came up with and calls Feature Injection. What it really means is to focus analysis efforts in the opposite …
On October 1, 2012, I’m speaking at the Agile Testing & BDD eXchange, a one-day conference jam-packed with talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming about the latest innovative ideas, tools and practices in Agile Testing and BDD. You can see the full program here! A distinguishing characteristic of a Skills Matter conference is their insistence on …
I’m sitting in an airport lounge waiting for my delayed flight – the pilot for my flight is on another flight that was already delayed… go figure – going through emails from the past couple of days. I just hit a 15 email conversation between three people but including a group of about 20. I …
I felt the need to climb on to my soap box for a few minutes. As agile has become more and more mainstream, and risen higher in the buzzword index a fairly interesting misconception has appeared with respect to categorization. It seems that whenever agile is mentioned, authors feel this odd compunction to treat agile …
