With a few weeks of being sick and busy, traveling and celebrating, and wrapping up my last blog arc, it has taken me awhile to settle on the next set of topics I want to write about here. The way my mind works, I’m not as good at random musings as I am at more… Continue reading Introducing Agility
We’ve come at last to number ten on my top ten list of the core responsibilities of effective product owners in an Agile software development environment. In this set of posts I have talked about the image of product owners as bridges connecting the intelligence of the market with the resources of technology to create… Continue reading Know your product intimately
In my last blog post I wrote about how the product owner facilitates good decision-making when the team faces the need to make tradeoffs. This time I want to talk about another challenging responsibility for strong product owners: protecting the development team from unhelpful distractions. Anyone who has been reading this blog knows that perhaps… Continue reading Protect the team
For the past seven weeks or so I have been sharing my top ten list of the core responsibilities of effective product owners in an Agile software development environment. I started by discussing the crucial need for communicating with the product manager, because when the roles of product owner and product manager are split this can… Continue reading Handling tradeoffs
If you read books, websites, or tweets about product development (hopefully you’re at least reading my tweets from @asbiv and you must be reading this blog or you wouldn’t be reading these words now) then you’ve probably heard a lot about the roles of product managers and product owners. Much of the literature out there… Continue reading Be available
Even as I am working on number seven in my top ten list of core responsibilities for product owners, I wanted to take a brief break to write about something else. This week I finished two books about people with a passion for making great products and I wanted to share some of what these… Continue reading A passion for great products
With my last post here I passed the half-way mark in my ‘top ten’ responsibilities of product owners. Here I want to talk about number six on this list: good product owners talk with the designer, lead coder, and lead tester about what’s coming up in future sprints. In the movie When Harry Met Sally,… Continue reading Planning what’s next
We’ve reached the half-way point in my top ten list of the core responsibilities for product owners in an Agile software development environment. We started with talking about the importance of strong communication between the product owner and the product manager. In an organization where these roles are played by two different people, tight teamwork… Continue reading Working with QA
As I have been writing about over the past few weeks, there are a number of key responsibilities that strong product owners carry. I’ve talked about communicating with the product manager who provides vital information from the market. I’ve talked about creating user stories as the best way to capture the reasons why we are… Continue reading Someone who knows the answers
In my current blog series on the primary responsibilities of Product Owners, I’ve talked already about the importance of regular communication with the Product Manager and the value of telling stories – specifically of generating user stories that prompt good conversations among the development team members about what users are trying to accomplish. I received… Continue reading Tend the backlog
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