Responsibility Six: Communicating to all stakeholders, all the time

This post is a part of a series discussing Agile Product Management responsibilities. Click here to start from the beginning. Product managers need to continuously keep an organization up-to-date about how their releases are developing. This means that they have to deal with a company’s most urgent and challenging questions: “When will our product (or Continue

Responsibility Five: Agile product teams

This post is a part of a series discussing Agile Product Management responsibilities. Click here to start from the beginning. Agile product managers are immersed in their development teams, but they also liaise with the rest of the organization as necessary. This can contribute to a significantly increased workload for Agile product managers, so in Continue

More on Responsibility Four: Customer input and collaboration

This post is a part of a series discussing Agile Product Management responsibilities. Click here to start from the beginning. In my last post, I started talking about how customer input and collaboration supports the goals of Agile Product Managers. By working directly with customers, Agile product managers get clear feedback that helps them to Continue

Responsibility Four: Customer input and collaboration

Throughout the development cycle, Agile product managers must keep customers informed to make certain that their products are progressing according to expectations. An Agile Product Manager uses a number of mechanisms in order to gather useful information, involving the whole team and using different communication vehicles to convey rich customer information. Market research and voice-of-the- Continue