The new buzz word in #prodMgmt is #prodOps. It’s a real thing. I want to share my views before it gets overly commoditized. ProdOps is short for Product Operations. But what does that actually mean? Is it some re-packaged and monetized mishmash of DevOps + MarTech + RevOps + SalesOps + Pragmatic Marketing? Is it…
Tag: Continuous Delivery
Scaling the Consolidation of Product Owner & Product Manager
TL;DR —So let’s say we go ahead and reunify the Scrum-imposed separation of Product Owner and Product Manager, what then? How does this scale? The Topic One of my predictions for 2019 asserts a continued consolidation of product ownership and product management. In response to this Ed Roshitsh, CEO at Dude Solutions posed this excellent…
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…
7 Things That Drive Your Product Manager Crazy
Here’s a list of 6 things your product person hates, 7 that drive them crazy. Please try and use this list for good rather than evil. Weather permitting, this weekend I am going to record a set of 12.25-minute podcasts for a series I’m calling “Software Product Therapy.” Topics I’m covering come from a list…
E is for Estimable - Part 4 of 6 of why it pays to INVEST in your user stories
TL;DR — A good user story can be estimated. We don’t need an exact estimate, but just enough to help the rank and schedule the story’s implementation. If the above TL;DR sounds familiar, it’s because it’s practically an exact quote from Bill Wake’s 2003 blog post that introduced the INVEST approach to product backlog items. And sure,…