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.
A look at how asynchronous communication can help address the communication conundrum product managers face with too many meetings and too many emails.
Just about every organization I've come across struggles with finding the right product team structure. Here are some ideas from the INDUSTRY conference.
Just about every organization I've come across struggles with finding the right product team structure. Here are some ideas from the INDUSTRY conference.
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.
Just about every organization I've come across struggles with finding the right product team structure. Here are some ideas from the INDUSTRY conference.
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.
Use process to get great outcomes. Here's a description of how the team I’m working with right now does backlog refinement.
Now that summer is upon us in the northern hemisphere and we’re halfway through the year, it’s a good time to stop for a moment and think about what you can do to advance your career in the rest of 2018. I’ve always found attending conferences to be particularly helpful. They expose you to new …
If you’re a product owner, you no doubt know that you need to manage your team’s product backlog. Yet it’s likely that depending on who you ask there could be different views of what exactly that means, who all is involved in carrying it out, and even the specific name you use to refer to …
Discovery work focuses on fast learning and validation in order to increase your understanding of the need and solution to set up delivery.
in this issue of Inside Product Management I run the risk of getting caught in GDPR weariness to share some resources on GDPR and its relevance to product people.
Some different views on roles and responsibilities of product people, specifically some thoughts on how to identify the roles and responsibilities relevant to your situation.
Product managers, product owners, and business analysts don't need technical skills, but they should at least understand the technology they're using.
This issue of Inside Product Management shares some ways that you can be effective as a remote product owner.
Here are a collection of my views, and influences on my views, on certifications, including what may strike some as a rather shocking inclusion.
Business analysts can be a business analyst, product owner, product manager, or portfolio manager in an agile organization. What you do depends on you, your organization, and your product.
Business analysts are product people too. Understanding product management techniques can definitely help you grow your business analyst career.
I explain why you want to split user stories and provide some references on how to do it. After all, Epics are for customers, user stories are for the team.
A set of resources about the key aspects of writing user stories. These are things people forget when they obsess about writing user stories "just right".
This issue of Inside Product Management, explores ways to determine if you're making progress and get an indication of what’s going on with your product.
For my readers in the US, I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday and didn’t over indulge in good food, college, and professional sports. I’ve come to think that next to the last couple weeks of March, the week of Thanksgiving is my favorite week because there is a ton of good college basketball and …
An Information radiator is a visual display that a team places in a highly visible location, to provide transparency about their activity and progress.
The KBPUpdate has a new name and a renewed focus on resources to help product people deliver powerful internal products.
To help you understand MVP, here are some posts that explore different perspectives on minimum viable/marketable product/feature.