The DevOps movement is playing a key role in closing the gap between traditional development and operations teams. The goal is to bring these two groups together, increasing communication and collaboration, to focus on one common purpose – delivering value to the end customer. As teams come together with the goal of process standardization, the Continue
More on 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. In my last post, I addressed the need to continuously inform stakeholders of development status. Sooner or later, a team will have to decide on a precise date and set of features, capabilities, and architectural Continue
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
Creating a Good MRD/BRD
This post is a part of a series discussing Agile Product Management responsibilities. Click here to start from the beginning. My prior post talked about the barriers to creating a good MRD/BRD; now I want to get into how to actually create one. There are three principles that guide an Agile product manager’s description of Continue