TL;DR — Not knowing your team cost is like the difference between riding into a debate atop the elephant vs. standing behind it with a shovel. Consider the Cost How much money does your team burn per sprint? Why do I ask? I posed this question a few weeks back on both Twitter and LinkedIn in response to…
Month: December 2018
Product Manager — CEO or Pirate Captain?
TL;DR: Below be the 7 Arrrrguments based on Black Bart’s Pirate Code of 1722 that suggest that a product manager is more pirate king/queen than CEO. Some CEOs exercise their power to dictate priorities by virtue of possessing the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion. According to the 1st Article of the Pirate Code: “Every man…
Please, let’s not toss the PO baby out with the bathwater
TL;DR — The role of the product owner is not to come up with the best ideas, but to create an environment where the best ideas can be surfaced and measured. I read with no small amount of interest Joshua Kerievsky’s “Eliminating the Product Owner Role” after being directed to it via Bob Galen’s response in “Here…