Product Management vs. Product Ownership

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...

If you’ve ever wanted to own a business or think like a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), being a product owner has many similarities. A good product owner has to think carefully about how to spend money and what kind of return on investment she’ll get. In most companies, we forget...

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...

I recall one of the best advice I received as a Product Owner when trying to determine what we should build next for our product that was trying to compete in a ferocious market. I invited my mentor to our brainstorming session I was facilitating in order to get ideas...

In an agile environment, where speed and adaptability are highly valued, maintaining high-quality standards throughout the product development process presents unique challenges to all roles; especially Product Owners. The iterative/incremental nature of agile development, with its emphasis on rapid releases and responsiveness to change, can sometimes make it seem like...

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...

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...

Bringing the right stakeholders together and effective stakeholder management are essential requirements for leading a project to success. In Agile/Scrum, how can we identify the right stakeholders and ensure we are informing them at the rate/type of information they want?. This article attempts to answer these questions by discussing how...

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...

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...

Welcome! (or welcome back!). As promised we discussing a series of topics related to prioritization techniques. This one is definitely in my top 10 when working with my clients as well as being a Product Owner myself. Often our stakeholders have what I like to call "opinion data". I certainly...

I recall the days when one of our biggest challenges in building software products was serving up data from the database through to the end-user. In concert with that struggle was making software deployments with accompanying database changes without breaking the user experience. I am probably showing my age here...

No, we aren't talking about Russia or their Capitol. We are exploring quite a few techniques that some may not be aware of when trying to prioritize the infinite list of ideas a business can generate vs. the finite amount of time and capacity to do them. Over the next...

Given that most of my work is related to software products in the agile space, I was surprised when researching our Top 10 Challenges to Product Delivery, that supply chain made the list. As I looked into it more, it made sense. In addition, my background working at FedEx Express...