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Inside Product

This meeting should be an email, but will people read it?

February 27, 2022 by KentMcDonald

A look at how asynchronous communication can help address the communication conundrum product managers face with too many meetings and too many emails.

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How to use outcomes to decide how to deliver a solution

November 16, 2019 by KentMcDonald

Just about every organization I've come across struggles with finding the right product team structure. Here are some ideas from the INDUSTRY conference.

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How to decide what to do using outcomes

November 9, 2019 by KentMcDonald

Just about every organization I've come across struggles with finding the right product team structure. Here are some ideas from the INDUSTRY conference.

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How do you deal with testing issues in a sprint?

October 18, 2019 by KentMcDonald

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.

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How to structure your product team

September 28, 2019 by KentMcDonald

Just about every organization I've come across struggles with finding the right product team structure. Here are some ideas from the INDUSTRY conference.

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Should agile adoption be top down?

August 23, 2019 by KentMcDonald

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.

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An example of backlog refinement for an internal product

June 14, 2019 by KentMcDonald

Use process to get great outcomes. Here's a description of how the team I’m working with right now does backlog refinement.

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INDUSTRY:The Product Conference

Attending INDUSTRY: The Product Conference

June 21, 2018 by KentMcDonald

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 …

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Backlog Refinement

What Product Owners need to know about backlog refinement

June 7, 2018 by KentMcDonald

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 …

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Understanding Discovery

May 31, 2018 by KentMcDonald

Discovery work focuses on fast learning and validation in order to increase your understanding of the need and solution to set up delivery.

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GDPR

Have You Heard Enough About GDPR Yet?

May 24, 2018 by KentMcDonald

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.

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Product People

How to understand product roles and responsibilities

May 17, 2018 by KentMcDonald

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.

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Data Model

Do product people need technical skills?

May 3, 2018 by KentMcDonald

Product managers, product owners, and business analysts don't need technical skills, but they should at least understand the technology they're using.

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Six tips for remote Product Owners

How to have effective product ownership at a distance

April 25, 2018 by KentMcDonald

This issue of Inside Product Management shares some ways that you can be effective as a remote product owner.

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Understand why you think you need a certification

If you want a certification, understand why you’re getting it

April 19, 2018 by KentMcDonald

Here are a collection of my views, and influences on my views, on certifications, including what may strike some as a rather shocking inclusion.

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4 models that explain the relationship between product managers, product owners and business analysts

4 Roles Business Analysts Play in an agile Organization

April 5, 2018 by KentMcDonald

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.

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Product People

How product management aids your business analyst career

March 1, 2018 by KentMcDonald

Business analysts are product people too. Understanding product management techniques can definitely help you grow your business analyst career.

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CRUD story splitting pattern

Why you want to split user stories

February 22, 2018 by KentMcDonald

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.

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What You Ought to Know about Writing User Stories

February 15, 2018 by KentMcDonald

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".

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How to Know You’re Making Progress

January 11, 2018 by KentMcDonald

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.

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Coaching Product People

November 28, 2017 by KentMcDonald

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 …

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Transparency with Information Radiators

October 26, 2017 by KentMcDonald

An Information radiator is a visual display that a team places in a highly visible location, to provide transparency about their activity and progress.

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Introducing Inside Product Management

July 5, 2017 by KentMcDonald

The KBPUpdate has a new name and a renewed focus on resources to help product people deliver powerful internal products.

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WTF is an MVP?

June 28, 2017 by KentMcDonald

To help you understand MVP, here are some posts that explore different perspectives on minimum viable/marketable product/feature.

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