How Getting to Small Helps Teams Get to Done

Are you struggling with how to create your product backlog? You have a business goal but you are still unsure how to continue? Let me introduce you to impact mapping and why this is beneficial for building a backlog based on your business goals in no time. Impact mapping is...

As a product owner, it’s important that you’re always leading the team through product innovation ideas or your product can quickly become stale and boring! Without true innovation, your team just builds and builds, but doesn’t get to use their brains creatively, which can stagnant product innovation. In this article...

In the ever-evolving world of product development, understanding what your customers truly want stands as a cornerstone for success. This crucial insight not only shapes innovative products but also ensures they resonate deeply with your target audience. Let's dig a bit deeper on a few of the best practices for...

Who is a Product Owner? The product owner is a key role in an agile software development project. They are responsible for defining the project vision and bringing that to the scrum team. The product owner creates the product backlog and sets the priority of the backlog items. They focus...

Product Development is an exciting space and the sky is the limit on the products we can choose to develop. Naturally, the market for your product determines its success. You always have to have a great product idea, but then have to have a plan to execute better than your...

At a lot of large companies, our customers are so far out of reach that we don’t know anything about them. We don’t have any direct access to customers either, so by the time we get any real information, it’s several layers removed. It’s really common for companies to protect...

Welcome back! In this session, we will focus on Product Owner anti-patterns. There is no doubt that the Product Owner is a critical role in Scrum. Essentially, they are accountable for maximizing the value that the Scrum Team collectively delivers. They straddle both worlds of Development and Business/Stakeholder Management. While...

For product managers working in Agile/Scrum organizations, featuring and task prioritization is important for effective roadmap planning. Out of all the features you consider, prioritization helps identify the order of importance and drives the delivery of the work that achieves organizational goals. We are continuing our series this year on...

Welcome back (or just welcome) to our series on prioritization techniques. As I work with teams and organizations, I notice a huge component of planning missing in their endeavors; prioritization. I often say that a Product Owner's job is to maximize the amount business value delivered of a Scrum Team...

Dwight Eisenhower was one of the greatest military minds and responsible for countless decisions during one of our world's most dire times (WWII). When I was in leadership training at FedEx (many years ago), I was exposed to the 4D's of prioritizing my tasks as a leader (Delegate, Delay, Discard...

As we continue on our series through the end of the year (the one that focuses on prioritization techniques for our Product Teams), we land on Story Mapping in this post. I normally wouldn't think of Story Mapping as a prioritization technique, but in certain situations, I think it's perfect...