Earlier this week Steven and I did a webinar for the good folks at Planbox. The topic was centered on Agile adoption rates and an unexpected finding that resulted from …
Who Owns The Product?
Few people would likely dispute that a product owner or product manager “own” the product in most organizations. What do I mean by own? I mean having responsibility for optimizing the value of …
From Old to New – The Chronicles of an Enterprise Agile Transformation
Part Three: Setting the Stage We left off with the engineering function tasked with further describing the transformation that needed to occur from the current state, waterfall / iterative to …
Product Management Toolkits
Four Points to Consider. Several months ago we conducted an informal survey of product management toolkits. Hardly scientific, we were very interested in understanding perceptions of their value. Why? Because as …
The Chronicles of an Enterprise Agile Transformation – Common Ground?
Part Two: Five Equals One? We left off with the cross-functional leadership team being asked by senior management what our organizational Agile objectives were? Going into this exercise I thought …
New Product Management Track at Code Camp Silicon Valley
Several months ago Cindy Solomon made me aware of Silicon Valley Code Camp. As it turns out, this gathering of engineers has quite a following. Like many folks in adjoining professions, …