Agile • 7 min read Product Management Skills For Non-Revenue Product Owners (#2 of 3) In an earlier [http://www.mironov.com/pm-skills4po/] post, we laid out a framework for agile software development projects (internally…
Agile • 9 min read A Product Management Skills Map For Product Owners (#1 of 3) This is the first of three linked posts revisiting the product owner /agile product manager challenge: two similarly named roles…
Agile • 2 min read Six Ways Product Managers Can Help Their Agile Development Teams (and vice versa) I had a chance to lead two discussions last week at an innovation conference organized by Pitney Bowes. One session…
Agile • 2 min read Managing the Unmanageable I’ve had the great pleasure of reading an early copy of “Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools and Insights for…
Agile • 4 min read Strategically Clogged Backlogs Among the urgent calls from software teams to me for interim product leadership is a variety that I call “systemic…
Agile • 1 min read Video: Agile Product Mgmt challenges The second video (of five) in Tolpagorni's [https://www.tolpagorni.com/] product leadership series: Magnus Billgren and Rich…
Agile • 4 min read Measuring Product Managers (in Swedish or English) I’m back from a week of product management workshops and seminars in Sweden, including a Product Leadership event hosted…
Agile • 3 min read A Journey of 1000 Miles is Still 1000 Miles Long It’s easy to confuse actual progress with intentions to make progress. Why point out the obvious? I’ve just…
Agile • 3 min read Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap Recent conversations at several clients highlight an often-repeated set of magical thinking: beliefs by internal clients that development resources are…
Agile • 2 min read “What If Dev Doesn’t Think Product Mgmt Represents Customers?” Recently, I put up a small assessment tool for product management teams. This tool is intended to generate discussion and…
Agile • 2 min read Review: “Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams” [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470746637.html]I’ve had the chance to read an early version of Mario…
Agile • 3 min read 6 Lessons for Non-Development Executives at Agile Software Companies In many conversations over the last few months, I’ve see executive teams grappling with the positive effects of agile…