Agile & Product Management
Embracing Change: Agile's Impact on Adapting to Market Dynamics
Today’s market is changing rapidly - all day, every day. There’s no more resting your laurels in product management and business in general. There are competitors already, and there will be more soon. This can be worrying, but doesn’t have to be, with proper internal processes.
4 Ways to Measure the Success of Your Agile Teams
I’ve been working on Agile and Scrum certifications for several years now. One of my certifications is called Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner or CSP-PO. I took this course through Scrum Alliance with the good folks at Applied Frameworks and learned quite a few techniques I use regularly in my product management work day to day…
Time's Up! How to Use Story Points Effectively
For Agile product managers, story points are an essential part of the job. During each sprint, the product team works with other teams to set a sprint backlog of items to work on next. In some scenarios, this is easy, but in many others, market pressures, client demands and leadership expectations can conflict and introduce chaos…
Polishing the Diamond: Participatory Decision Making Model
Building SaaS isn’t an easy thing to do even when the team is technically able to get it done. There are emotions and relationships with one another, the work, the business, the market and so much more that can skew perspectives…
Unlock Success: Five Key Values for Scrum Masters
There’s one role that’s overlooked, underrated and overrated all at once on every team, and that my friend is the Scrum Master. This sometimes controversial role can be held by members of the scrum team…
Agile Alchemy: The Golden Release Frequency
We’re going to dig into release frequency today and consider agile product management when it comes to releasing completed work. How often should it be done? Should every sprint be released? Those are the kind of questions we’ll cover. But first…
Product Roadmaps: Real or Ridiculous?
“Plans are nothing, planning is everything,” at least that’s what Dwight D. Eisenhower said. The plans will change, but it’s in planning…
The Agile Advantage: Boosting Efficiency & ROI
The Agile approach puts flexibility, collaboration and customer satisfaction front and center…
Agile Product Management: A Catalyst to Innovation and Adaptability
The world of SaaS (Software as a Service) moves quickly and can change often depending on the industry…
Intro to Dual-Track Agile
When implementing Agile methodologies for software teams, there are many different obstacles that can come up…
Psychological Safety and Innovation
I’ve been in the software space for six years. One thing that can be overlooked in a company is psychological safety and its impact on innovation….
Product-Led Growth
Before discussing the ins and outs of PLG Companies, it’s important to understand the evolution of PLG…
OKR Driven Product Management
We define a Product Manager as one who is responsible for delivering tangible concrete outcomes or values to/for the organization…
Agile Mindset in Software
We discussed the Agile Mindset along with the 4 important values and 12 underlying principles in the last article…
The Agile Mindset
In Agile practices, the mindset matters most. Processes followed without said mindset can provide an illusion of Agility even if they increase the value created by teams…
