Inside Product
Just in time product management resources
Description In this model, product responsibilities are split between two people both from the business area. One person is the Product Manager and focuses on market/customer concerns (more strategic, more external) and another person spends the majority of their time with the delivery team, so they are more product and development focused. (more tactical, more …
Description This model is very similar to Model 2 except that the person filling the product owner role is a business analyst in the IT organization. In this model, the product responsibilities are split between the product manager and business analyst. This model often occurs in internal product situations where IT is working on a …
Description In this model, the Product Manager and the Product Owner are the same person. When you combine these roles into the same person they: Set the Roadmap and identifies what needs the product will satisfy in the current, next and future time frames. This also implies Long term planning, and Communication of prioritization to …
People who help their organizations determine the right things to deliver can have a variety of job titles and can fill a variety of roles. The rise of agile approaches in general and Scrum in particular added another role to the list – Product Owner. As with everything else related to agile, the nature of …
Consultants are fond of using the phrase “it depends” when asked how to solve a specific problem. Many think consultants use that response when they don’t know the answer, or don’t want to provide it for free. In reality the consultants use that phrase to indicate the huge influence context has on how to address …
I facilitated a version of the Product Owner Value Game at IBADD2016 . Dojo Breddels and Paul Kuijten created the Product Owner Value game to use during their coaching efforts to help people become more value driven. They presented the game at Agile2015 where they shared the rules of the game and provided some thoughts …
When I facilitated the Product Owner Value Game at IBADD2016, I asked the participants to suggest some things about the activity, or product ownership in general that puzzled them. One of the items was one word written on a sticky note.“Dependencies”. There is a lot involved in that sticky note. Dependencies have always been an …
When I facilitated the Product Owner Value Game at IBADD2016, I asked the participants to suggest some things about the activity, or product ownership in general that puzzled them. A couple of the Puzzles brought up were: The math behind exploration & reward of doing so When to commit to deliverable vs additional research To …
When I facilitated the Product Owner Value Game at IBADD2016, I asked the participants to suggest some things about the activity, or product ownership in general that puzzled them. One of the puzzles was “How to Anticipate Quality of Estimates.” I suspect this item was inspired by the characteristic of the game that introduced a …
Last fall I worked with Addison-Wesley Profession to create a set of LiveLessons to provide additional coverage of the techniques described in Part 3 of Beyond Requirements: Analysis with an Agile Mindset. Analysis Techniques for Product Owners LiveLessons is a video training course providing methods for understanding project stakeholders, the organizational context in which a …
I’m writing this as I fly home from the Agile2015 conference, or what Jake Calabrese rightfully calls “summer camp.” I headed into the week planning to focus on sessions related to product ownership or one of it’s related fields, as I described a couple of weeks ago. As a result I found myself attending several …
Another Way to Say “Building The Right Thing” Successful software product development and IT Projects face a constant, and healthy tension – you want to build the right thing, you want to build the thing right, and you want to build the thing fast so you can get more feedback. (Thanks to Henrik Kniberg’s excellent …
A friend of mine is an agile coach for a large software product company. When she coaches teams, product owners, and managers she stresses that teams need to feel ownership for their work. She likes to teach product owners and other leaders to lead through the use of questions, and has compiled a list of …
As I look to supplement my understanding of product ownership I have found a set of resources to be very helpful. The collection of blogs and newsletters listed below are primary sources I use for topics such as product management and user experience where I do not have as much experience as I do in …
Originally published on B2T Training BA Blog. One of my favorite aspects of adopting an agile mindset is the tendency to think about whether what I am doing actually adds value to the organization. With this though, comes the knotty problem that value can often be hard to clearly define. Because I generally find myself …
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 …
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 …
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 …
