As I put together some new blog posts in the next few months I also want to continue revisiting some older posts as well. I finished reblogging my old Monty Python-based entries on the role of a product owner and now I want to revisit the second ‘arc’ of my blog by discussing again the… Continue reading The role of Product Managers
This was originally posted by me back in July of 2012 as part of my earliest series of blogs on the role of Product Owner. Several of these posts used elements of Monty Python’s Holy Grail as their launch pad. Though much has evolved in my thinking about Agile software development these early ideas still… Continue reading Questions on the Bridge
Originally posted on InTruthItsNotThatSimple:
A big part of how I see my role as a Product Owner in an Agile environment is to bridge the gap between the business and the developers. On one side of the bridge is the Product Manager, whose primary goal is to hear and relay the voice of the market. …
Originally posted on InTruthItsNotThatSimple:
I wrote earlier that one of the key ways to think about the role of product owners is to say that we stand on a bridge connecting the voice of the market with the world of the developers. My goal is not to serve as a barrier between the business side…
Yesterday my wife and I watched the 2014 movie Selma about the event leading up to the Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. The timing for watching the movie was somewhat coincidental; it’s been in our Netflix queue for months and the disc just happened to show up in time for us… Continue reading Selma
I came across this quote in a book several of us are reading in my firm: The job [of the product manager/product owner] is to maintain and promote the product vision. In practice, this means documenting the vision, sharing it with stakeholders, incorporating feedback, generating features and stories, setting priorities for release planning, providing direction… Continue reading The role of strategic thinking
With the Major League Baseball All-star game coming up I’ve been thinking about MVPs. But probably not the way you’re thinking of. Instead of wondering who the most valuable player will be for the American and National leagues, I’m thinking about minimum viable products. In the software development world, the concept of a minimum viable… Continue reading Looking for the MVP
In my previous career people used to tell me that once I got started talking about a subject it was hard to get me to stop. If I opened my mouth to explain something that I was passionate about it you could expect that it would take about 25 minutes for me to stop talking… Continue reading Simplicity in life
Today (which is day nine of a ten-day sprint) we had our eighth UAT or user-acceptance testing session. We have these sessions almost every day of the sprint, allowing the testers and the product owner (and usually the designer as well) to look together at the features and fixes being developed by the coders. This… Continue reading Frequent acceptance testing
I’ve been focusing these ‘sprint in the life’ posts on one of the projects that I work on as a product owner. I am part of two other sprint teams as well, and we as a company have several other projects going on simultaneously that other product owners are involved with. The team of product… Continue reading Connecting with other teams
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