Before getting into the meat of the six Agile Product Management responsibilities, I want to quickly recap key themes and terminology of Agile. Agile planning methods mean that the feedback system is an automatic process from the very start of a project, allowing for speedy re-planning and readjustment as necessary. Whether your project needs to Continue
Agile in Practice: Must-have capabilities
In my last post, I talked about two of the crucial organizational capabilities for Agile’s success. Once you’ve empowered Agile teams and prioritized based on business value, here are three more capabilities to develop. 1. Establish a collaborative business and IT management framework Agile teams benefit from the pragmatic flexibility engineered into a collaboration model Continue
A Way Out of IT Frustrations
The list of IT frustrations is well understood by many, but few know what can be done about them. Prior attempts to solve these systemic problems focused on tighter controls and better tools, yet these approaches have proved ineffective. This is where Agile and previous attempts at fostering business/IT innovation diverge. Agile was designed to Continue
IT vs. The Business: Why do we butt heads
It’s no secret that many business executives have a low opinion of IT, but more surprising is how many within the IT/engineering ranks are also frustrated with how collaboration with the business has nearly always set them, and the business, up for disappointment. In working with our Fortune 1000 clients over the years, I’ve compiled Continue