Just in time product management resources
After an inexcusably long delay, here is another post on one of the sessions from Agile 2011. This one, Agile Thinking for Business Analysis: Going Beyond User Stories was presented by Steve Adolph & Shane Hastie. The premise of the session was that although User Stories are the “industry standard” way of documenting requirements in …
Steve Denning, a former world bank executive and author gave two presentations at Agile 2011, both of which were of extreme relevance and importance for business analysis practitioners. I was able to attend both and found in this case at least, we were able to schedule across stages in the right order. His Making the …
There are two ways to look at the topic of Portfolio Management: How do you incorporate projects using an agile approach into your broader overall portfolio How do you manage your portfolio in an agile manner? Kenny Rubin in his presentation Strategies for Portfolio Management explored the second, which implicitly covered some of the first. …
The first session I attended was Jez Humble’s Applying the Lean Startup Model to the Enterprise. This session introduced the Lean Startup Model and discussed how the concepts could be applied to larger more established organizations, specifically how to organize development and operations. About the talk If you are not familiar with lean startup, don’t …
The first keynote at the Agile 2011 Conference was Barbara Frederickson, a professor at UNC Chapel Hill, who has done a great deal of work on the impact of positive emotions. In her talk Why Care about Positive Emotions, she discussed how positive emotions can change people's physiology and impact their effectiveness at work, in …
