Practices
Video: Jeff Patton on Product Management and Agile
In this keynote speech at MTP Engage 2018, Jeff Patton deconstructs agile methodologies from a product
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Managing products with Agility
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Overview
Managing Products with Agility results in products that provide valuable business outcomes, increased flexibility to respond to change, and greater transparency for investment decisions in product development.
The Product Owner's Responsibilities
The Product Owner is responsible for managing the product and releasing it to stakeholders and users. They’re also responsible for ensuring it represents value, its usable, useful and effective in meeting their needs.
In large organisations, Product Owners report to a Product Manager.
Day-To-Day
- Forecasting and release planning – ensure agile forecasting and release planning is done frequently.
- Product goal – understand how to use a product goal to drive strategy and execution, and how to build a vision that motivates, communicates, and provides constraints for delivery. Sprint Goals should contribute iterative steps toward the Product Goal.
- Product value – manage others’ understanding of value and apply different techniques and practices for defining, communicating and measuring value. Product Owners and their agile teams must work to understand the connection between value and empirical process, and how value should be the driving factor of the Product Goal.
Managing through Backlogs
Alignment is created from enterprise goals to teams through a cascade of backlogs.
Without this single “front door”, teams will focus on local concerns, priorities and the immediate demands of internal stakeholders and users, without consideration of higher value, strategic investment priorities.
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Practices
Creating Good Sprint Goals
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Practices
Video: Roman Pichler on Roadmaps
Roman Pichler discusses how to create a product roadmap – a high-level plan that shows how
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Creating “Done” Increments every Sprint
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Practices
Template: Product Roadmap
A product roadmap is a powerful tool to describe how a product is likely to grow,
Backlog Management
What to do with unfinished Stories
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Artefacts
Product Backlog
The Product Backlog is the single source of any work undertaken by the team. It serves
Backlog Management
Slicing Backlog Items with SPIDR
One of the easiest methods to slice Backlog items into smaller pieces
EBM
Using Evidence Based Management (EBM) for Reporting
Agile KPIs and OKRs created through using EBM help focus people on value-based metrics, impacts and
Backlog Management
Slicing Backlog Items to Small
Big stories can causes lots of problems. The remedy is to slice the item into ‘small’
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Prioritisation by Value and WSJF
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Guardrails
Video: Project Managers in Agile
What are the opportunities for Project Managers as the organisation moves to Scrum?
Backlog Management
Three Cs
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Difference between Scrum Master and Project Manager
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Backlog Management
INVEST
How do you slice Product Backlog items so that they can be delivered in a single
Flow
Video: How to do value stream mapping
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Backlog Management
How DEEP is your Backlog?
How do you slice Product Backlog items so that they can be delivered in a single
Backlog Management
Agile Product Roadmaps
One of the most handy tools for Product Owners to both forecast and describe the forward
Backlog Management
Making technical debt visible
Data tells a compelling story, but helping stakeholders visualise data in meaningful ways creates an impact
EBM
EBM and Agile Product Management
More than ever, organisations must focus on their investments and efforts. EBM is designed to drive
Backlog Management
Ordering the Product Backlog
Be aware that “prioritising” the Product Backlog tends to lead to suboptimal market value and reduced
EBM
Video: Making OKRs better with EBM
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a powerful tool for setting and measuring goals, but like
Backlog Management
Using capacity-driven forecasting
With capacity-driven planning, the team selects items once at a time and confirms each will fit
EBM
Using EBM to measure steps toward the Product Goal
Alignment to strategic outcomes is critical for any organisation. EBM helps leaders measure steps toward these
Backlog Management
Respecting Sprint Boundaries
What to do if the team is unable to finish the items before the sprint, is
Backlog Management
Objectives vs Deliverables
Start setting objectives over thinking about fixed deliverables and requirements
Product Management
Product Manager
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Practices
Video: What is a Product Increment?
Today’s question explores the Scrum product Increment. What exactly is an Increment? When does an Increment
Backlog Management
Writing Great User Stories
The Story format helps teams focus on the customer and their context to deliver value to
Frameworks
Waterfall vs Agile
What are the key differences between traditional linear, waterfall delivery methodologies and agile frameworks?
EBM
Working with the Product Goal
Product Goals are an important part of creating a tangible relationship between the work we do
