product management

A mathematician on how to get the mind into motion.

What is a product backlog? What problem is it supposed to solve? What problems sometimes arise when using one? So many questions, and not a lot of guidance out there ... Read More…

Jugglin’

I used to be a huge fan of SCRUM sprints and backlogs when it comes to planning software projects but the more I dive into product management the more I view them as anti-patterns that lead to bad…

Nearly a year ago, one of my all-time favorite Agile coaches, Henrik Kniberg, published an article that I believe does an excellent job at explaining how engineering teams can leverage the concept of an MVP and ensure they are getting the core value out of Agile methods.  If you have not yet read Henrik’s article, I hope you will take... View Article

Note: This is the narrative article version of a talk I’ve started giving recently at conferences, product meetups and corporate leadership teams.  It is a long read, but I believe it’s a critically important topic, and it lays out for people many of the topics I will be writing more about in the coming months.... View Article

Let's consider the time it takes to go from agreeing to do something to a customer receiving value. It may come as a surprise, but most of that time is not spent working. It's spent waiting. John Cutler, Product Evangelist at Amplitude explains why most of a product developers time is spent waiting and how limiting work in progress, the scope of work and handoffs can increase flow and value. Read the transcript and get the slides here:

Learn. Practice. Learn.

UPDATE 2: Another name for this article could be “Product Teams vs Delivery Teams”.  That’s because since this article was published, I wrote articles describing the difference between product teams vs feature teams, and product teams vs project teams.  And in those articles, I referenced the model described here as delivery teams. UPDATE 1: I... View Article

The role of the product organization is to consistently deliver significant new value to the business through continuous product innovation.  At a startup, the product team either innovates and provides real value or the startup dies.  However, in larger, more established companies, product teams very often lose their ability to deliver that ongoing value. They... View Article

We sit down with Marty Cagan, founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group, to discuss the lessons he’s learned over his long career in product management.

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Patton about moving from project to product thinking; whole team product ownership and satisfying the real customer needs.

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Patton about moving from project to product thinking; whole team product ownership and satisfying the real customer needs.

When I get an offer to join a product team, I spend the following days or even weeks considering many different parameters. I see it as a…