Just in time resources for internal products
This week’s been a busy one with work and a quick workcation to Denver to see Imagine Dragons at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Great location, great band. Here’s a sampling… But it didn’t feel right to skip a week, so I thought this was a great time to share some of my recent podcast appearances. Thanks …
The first week of October, I presented a session at IBADD about backlog refinement. Before the session started, I asked the attendees to write on post it notes what they hoped to learn. That activity serves a couple of purposes. It gives me insights into how people interpreted the intent of the session, it indicates …
Prioritization, or more specifically deciding what you will and will not build, is a key decision teams and organizations make on a regular basis. You could even say that it is the most important activity that product people, including business analysts, do. Yet many organizations use ineffective approaches to prioritization that adds more confusion than …
I originally wrote this article for Project Connections, one of my first outlets for article writing that sadly is no longer around. Fortunately, I was able to get all of my pieces back from the site and am able to freshen up my favorites for republishing. Enjoy! There are a few activities surrounding project work …
On June 30,2020 I recorded a webinar with Adrian Reed for Blackmetric Business Solutions. It was a wide ranging discussion driven by questions from the audience around all things business analysis and agile. Here are my responses to the questions asked during that session.
If you’re familiar with retrospectives you probably think of them as a way for your team to pause, reflect on how the last couple of weeks went and make adjustments to your team’s ways of working. That’s usually how I think of them also. Then this week I had the chance to experience a new …
Recently a connection on LinkedIn asked me an interesting question: After working as a Business Analyst and Project Manager for several years, I’ve discovered that many of my previous tasks actually fit the Product Owner role perfectly. So yesterday I applied for a Product Owner role. I’m hoping you can provide a pros/cons overview to …
For the last few weeks, I’ve explored what prioritization looks like in a variety of different scenarios. This week finished up that series with a look at how you can go about prioritizing a bunch of stakeholder requests. This is a common scenario when you’ve already built software for your company (ie internal product) and …
As I describe prioritization approaches in different scenarios, I thought I’d share an example from my past – revising the search functionality on agilealliance.org. I wrote this when I was on staff at Agile Alliance, so there’s a chance it’s changed since I wrote this, but the approach is still valid. You can also read …
Last week, we talked about how to prioritize your new product development efforts when you’re trying to get to product market fit. Once you hit that sought after milestone, your product moves into the growth stage of the product life cycle and you switch into product optimization. So it makes sense that optimization is the …
Here’s the next in a series of issues on prioritization. This week’s issue looks at prioritization when you build a new product. Some people refer to this as going from 0 → 1. In the world of internal products, you can think of this as what you need to do to enable a brand new …
A couple weeks ago, I sent out an overview of key points product teams should consider when making prioritization decisions. In that overview I promised to explore different scenarios in more depth. So here’s the first scenario – replacing an existing product. Product replacements are a common activity these days, especially for organizations undergoing a …
Last week, I sent out an overview of key points product teams should consider when making prioritization decisions. And promised to follow up that issue with dives into specific contexts. I also encouraged readers to reply with questions and suggest scenarios. One of the emails I received had a great question about prioritization in a …
An Overview on Priority Prioritization, or more specifically deciding what you will and will not build, is a key product management activity. It’s equally important for a tech product that your company sells as it is for an internal product that enables your company’s business processes. You could even say that it is the most …
This presentation explains how business analysis contributes to successful digital transformations. You’ll also find out how to tell if you’re in a digital transformation in name only and find out how you can make the best of that situation with techniques that are helpful in both circumstances.
