Looking at my posts here for 2015 is a bit depressing. I started the year full of excitement, with a plan to put up brief posts as often as five times each week on different topics – why that sounded sustainable after several months in which I’d posted only half a dozen times in total… Continue reading Back on the block
Today something happened that I have experienced multiple times in the past few years. A question came up in our daily scrum meeting about the way two features need to interact in our product. Both are new features (though they leverage some of our existing functionality) and the team has been making great progress on… Continue reading Let’s schedule a meeting for that
I’ve picked again recently on the theme of Agile planning in this blog and thought I would continue with a few brief thoughts about the context for planning. I talked earlier in this series (way back in January of 2014) about portfolio planning and product roadmaps that set plans for individual sprints and releases into… Continue reading Tell me a (short) story
Writing my latest blog post on daily planning as part of the broader Agile product development plan got me reflecting on some of my own planning tools and techniques. I wanted to share some of those thoughts here. First of all I should acknowledge that I am a huge fan of planning. I’ve found both… Continue reading Personal planning: reflections on my own daily planning post
Many months ago I started writing a 10-part series on Agile planning (you can read the first post here if you want to catch up; then keep going forward from there to find the other pieces, most of which are tagged as “Planning”). Since that ambitious beginning I got frequently sidetracked and so I never… Continue reading Daily planning
The topic of technical debt came up in a couple of settings this week at work. I’ve written about this topic before here (among other places) but two different situations raised this issue in the past week and a third provoked an interesting set of questions. First was a response from one of my readers. … Continue reading Technical debt
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
The past few months have continued the trend in my life of finding very little time and energy for blogging. Those of you who follow me on Twitter (@asbiv) may even have noticed that in the past month I’ve been way down on my tweeting as well. Lots of factors have contributed to this: Work… Continue reading State of the blog
I spend a lot of time thinking about purpose. Sometimes of course I’m too busy to raise my eyes above the whirlwind of tasks buffeting me through my day; on days like those (and there have been a number of them in the past few months) the only purpose I can focus on is simply… Continue reading Living with purpose
Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while probably know that in 2015 I began an experiment. After a couple of years of writing mostly about Agile software development and my role as a product owner I wanted to broaden the set of topics i write about. There are plenty of… Continue reading Refocusing this blog
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