TL;DR — Folks, it’s a zoo out there, especially when it comes to feature prioritization. Below is yet another O’Rly bookshelf to prove my point … … so BEHOLD! 5 more ‘wild beasties’ that graze upon our prioritization process. Only this time, the creatures listed below are more about situations we find ourselves in rather than the various…
Tag: Agile Methodology
Part of Being Agile means Charging Ground Balls
Baseball is a mesmerizing dance measured in increments of time & distance. In many ways, so is Agile. I’m truly enjoying watching the 2019 World Series. There are many reasons for my delight, but the biggest is watching the high-level of execution by both teams … while the players are having boatloads of fun. It makes…
Tiny Features, In Release — yet another #prodMgmt parody song lyric
Yet another #prodMgmt song parody, this one inspired by both the practice of trunk-based development, and the song ‘Tiny Bubbles’ by Don Ho. And similar to other song parodies of mine, I sang the first verse of this as my own intro to my recent presentation on ‘Using Experimentation to Deliver Value at Supersonic…
The 4-isms of Agile Failures
There are three anti-patterns Agile hates, a fourth that is detestable. Below I describe each, and their telltale signs. I’ve observed no small amount of digital ink this past year fuming with frustration about the failure of Agile. 18 part Twitter threads, ranting podcasts, and War & Peace sized blog posts lead me to hypothesize…
I come to bury Scrum, not praise it
Is Scrum dead? I don’t think so, but others do. So for those announcing its demise on blogs and Twitter, I offer this over-dramatic eulogy. A parting panegyric that is a snarky mixture of inspiration from Shakespeare’s play ‘Julius Caesar’ and Ron Jefferies’ blog post titled ‘Dark Scrum.’ Friends, product owners, scrummasters, lend me your…
The Many Hats Product Managers Wear — a semi-definitive list
If you’re an aspiring product owner or product manager, get ready to wear a lot of hats. TL;DR — Behold, 16 hats that product owners & product managers wear as part of their ongoing quest to continuously deliver valuable software. Last Friday, we had some fun with our 15 McCoy’isms. However, along with said silly sarcasm, I emphasized…
Dean P’s Product Management Predictions for 2019
“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.” ― Robert Kiyosaki Finally, we’re at part 3 of this 3 part series, where I get to stick my neck out and make predictions … forecasts that are primarily driven by observations made during the collection of data for my first two…
A 33-year retrospective of DevOps-driven Continuous Integration & Delivery
Behold, a quasi-representative aggregation of events, ideas, & products contributing to the evolution of CI/CD over the past 33 years Behold, a quasi-representative aggregation of events, ideas, & products contributing to the evolution of Continuous Integration & Delivery over the past 33 years. WHY CI/CD? This is the second part of a three-part series which ends…
A 33 year retrospective of Agile-driven Product Management.
A quasi-representative time line of Agile-minded events influencing Product Management Behold, a quasi-representative list of Agile-minded events, products, & ideas that influenced or map the evolution of Product Management over the past 33 years. WHY? I created this list as I thought it might create some conversations of value in the area of where Product…
The Twelve Daze of Product — A Christmas Carol Parody
Yes folks nothing says remote work team-building for the holidays than a delightful, Zoom-based product management song parody loudly voiced together in the cumulative song style of that Old English Carol favorite, ‘The 12 Days of Christmas.’ On the First day of Christmas, my PO gave to me … An estimation that is guilt-free. On the…