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Who Really Owns the Requirements Backlog?

In 2015, Agile, Business Analysis, Innovation, Lean, Product Management, Product Management Facts, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Management, Scrum, Sean Van Tyne, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, Uncategorized, User Experience by [email protected]

It’s often assumed that product owners and product managers are singularly responsible for the requirements backlog. While this is true in many instances – this assumption does not hold true in all …

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Satisfaction: Just How Satisfied Are Product Team Members?

In 2015, Agile, Business Analysis, Lean, Marketing, Product Management, Product Management Facts, Product Marketing, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Connections, Project Management, Recruitment, Ron Lichty, Sean Van Tyne, sensor six, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, User Experience by [email protected]

There’s no getting around the fact that product team members have been under pressure to do more with less for a sustained period of time. While the pressure brought on …

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Has Product Team Performance Improved Over Time?

In 2015, Agile, Business Analysis, Lean, Product Management, Product Management Facts, Product Marketing, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Management, Recruitment, Scrum, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, User Experience by [email protected]

Recently I was asked about product team performance over time. The actual question was “what does your data show about how the great recession impacted product teams?” Our data goes …

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Blended Product Development Methods Continue to Rule

In 2015, Agile, Lean, Product Management, Product Management Facts, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Management, Scrum, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, User Experience by [email protected]

For the last four years we have been tracking the adoption rates for various product development methodologies. Our annual Study of Product Team Performance has documented Agile’s continuous rise (through …

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Core Product Teams – What Size Performs Best?

In 2015, Agile, Business Analysis, Product Management, Product Management Facts, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Management, Scrum, Sean Van Tyne, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, Uncategorized, User Experience by [email protected]

Our market research into high performance product teams continues to yield interesting data about the factors that distinguish the most effective product teams from the pack. In last week’s post Sean …

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How Many People Are On Your Core Product Team?

In 2015, Agile, Business Analysis, Innovation, Lean, Marketing, Product Management, Product Management Consulting, Product Management Facts, Product Management Training, Product Marketing, Product Owner, Product Teams, Project Management, Scrum, Take Charge Product Management, The Study of Product Team Performance, Uncategorized, Updates, User Experience, Voice of the Customer by [email protected]

For the last four years we have been conducting detailed market research on what makes some product teams more successful than others. Over this time span we have identified nineteen …