You probably know all about roadmaps and user story mapping in agile product management. Both are effective tools used to capture and communicate your product’s goals and the journey to achieve them. User story mapping, for instance, will help to prioritize among relevant features and user stories and give the development team a better understanding …
An article by Jon Evans titled “JIRA is an antipattern” recently became the number 1 on Hacker News with 360 comments (and counting). The main point of the article is that JIRA is being used in the wrong way, and that product teams should complement its use by also writing documents. As indicated by the title …
This is the second article in a series on how the best Product Owners manage to get on top of their refinement process. The insights come from interviews and close collaboration with ~150 product owners from across tech. A Product Owner is responsible for the 3Cs, Card – Conversation – Confirmation. Most POs share the Card …
This is the first article in a series on how the best Product Owners manage to get on top of their refinement process. The insights come from interviews and close collaboration with ~150 product owners from across the tech industry. In Scrum, the PO’s responsibility is to manage the product backlog – to handle both …
It is not uncommon that teams disagree. In this article I’m not going to talk about how to avoid these situations, instead, I’ll focus on how to proceed once a discussion has reached a deadlock. Focus on decisions, not on discussions Discussions can go on and on until a person gives up. This is not …
