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: Scrum
JIRA-Slinging Ticket Monkey
I first penned JIRA-Slinging Ticket Monkey in a 2015 humor post. Little did I know how much it would resonate. Its intent was to reflect — in a very smart aleck way — the frustrations I was hearing from product owners who felt they were dancing to the monotonous tune of some organizational organ grinder. Over the past three-and-a-half-years…
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…
15 McCoy’isms for Product Managers
The “I’m a doctor, not a …” meme has been a running gag across all generations of Star Trek. I’ve extended this to product management. As any experienced product manager or product owner will tell you, we wear a lot of hats … A LOT OF HATS. This is the norm, and in most contexts perfectly acceptable…
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…
The Song of the Retrospective
Come Komrads & Agile-istas! Let us collaborate together on value and sing in a strong voice the Song of the Retrospective! This is the fourth lyric in “Dean’s Songs of the Product Owner” and the first based on a traditional Russian folk song, in this instance the “Song of the Volga Boatman.” Known in Russian…
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 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…