Earlier this year we asked 1150 survey participants the following open-ended question “What is the single greatest challenge your product team faces in meeting organizational expectations?” We received plenty of …
Building a Bridge from the Current State to an Agile State
The Chronicles of an Enterprise Agile Transformation (Part Four) Finally, we got to the “heart” of the presentation where the engineering lead described how we were going to change our …
Agile Adoption and an Unexpected Finding
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 …