I started this new set of blog postings about the top ten responsibilities of great product owners by talking about the role of strong product managers. I know that in some product organizations one person plays both of these roles, balancing her time and energy among the many strategic and tactical tasks that link engineers… Continue reading Communication is key
As I mentioned in my most recent blog posting, for the next set of blogs I write I want to talk about the top ten things that effective product owners do. If you’ve been following this blog you know that (at least from my perspective) there are quite a few things that product owners think… Continue reading The role of product managers
In a well-functioning Agile development team, the members of the team collaborate in multiple ways during a given development cycle or Sprint. Coders, testers, designers, and product owners work closely with each other to ensure that the most important features and fixes are worked on in the right way at the right time, also bringing… Continue reading Know your role
In the final days of a sprint just before a major release, it can be tempting to look for ways to get as many extra features added as possible. Scanning through the list of known bugs and requested enhancements, the desire to fit in just a few more items from the product backlog becomes powerful,… Continue reading One more feature
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 consistently impressed with the… Continue reading Share the praise
For more than a year the product team I work with has been developing a new product that we will formally unveil next month. I’ve been routinely impressed with the quality of work the team does, the creative solutions they find to problems, and their ability to balance new feature development with refactoring on pieces… Continue reading Some problems won’t go away
The scrum team I work with – like the company that I am part of – is globally distributed. We have coders and testers spread across offices in Europe and South America as well as in our home office in the US. This means that our daily scrums involve video calls linking the team members… Continue reading Clear communiction is crucial
(I’ve been on vacation for a bit but hope to get some new posts up this week. Here is one; enjoy) Perhaps in an ideal world of software development, all of the requirements for a product can be anticipated and articulated at the start of a project, all obstacles avoided during the development cycle, and… Continue reading How to react when things change
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 and the technology side;… Continue reading Questions on the bridge
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