If you read this blog regularly you may have noticed that I talk about “jobs to be done” a fair amount. This is a concept our firm uses in analyzing the products we make and the markets we serve. You can read lots about this idea in books and blogs and learn about it in… Continue reading Top Ten Jobs
As I head into the fall there are a number of topics I hope to blog about – both because these topics interest me and because they have come up in the past few months on the teams that I work closely with. So here are some sneak previews of things I’ll be writing about… Continue reading Notes on things to come
Originally posted on Applied Product Management Leadership:
Several months ago, I had the opportunity to watch the A&E series about the life of Albert Einstein. It was a fascinating view into the mind of a brilliant man. Make no mistake, he had his flaws from both a social & relational perspective. But when you look…
Originally posted on InTruthItsNotThatSimple:
I have the privilege of working with some great people. Both our technology team and our business team recruit bright and hardworking folks who care about the clients we serve. As we grow our product expertise and as we look toward launching new offerings in the months to come, I am…
Continuing my summer revisiting some of my favorite posts from 5 years ago, here’s another in my early blog series on the key concerns of a product owner. I hope you enjoy these thoughts on how to think about changing requirements in an Agile development environment. Sometimes it is the supposedly little changes that introduce… Continue reading Just a little change
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. …
I’ve written before about the importance in Agile software development of listening to the market to learn about painful and pervasive problems people will pay you to solve, and I’ve talked about ways that my team is engaging in more of these “voice of the customer” or “VOC” conversations both in person (where they work… Continue reading Voice of the customer
Posting a little late today because I spent much of the day traveling to a conference. But there are three things on my mind to mention here (many of them referenced on my Twitter feed so check it out if you’re interested @asbiv): Part of leadership is sharing credit and uplifting the contributions of the… Continue reading Brief notes
This has not been a good year for blogging for me. The truth is, since my first year blogging I have been much less consistent than I hoped to be. There have been some good reasons for this (as well as some poor excuses). My role has shifted at work and I’ve gotten much busier… Continue reading Blog renewal
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