A. I. for Product Management: An Intro
Everybody’s talking about applying AI in many different areas. I will talk about its use specifically within product management.
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Ideas on agility and product development
Make value flow with pull systems
Are you being pushed with more tasks than you can finish, regardless of how busy you already are, and work is piling up? If so, you are probably working in a push system! In this article, I will…
Baby steps of value: Incremental product development
We develop a product to solve a problem, fulfill a need, or seize an opportunity. We do that incrementally, from one short part to the next one. From increment to increment. And each increment is…
Continuous planning for product development
Today, I’ll talk about continuous planning for product development. I’ll do that by using an analogy I created years ago, which I call the "Horizon Analogy.”Imagine we are in the streets of a…
Product Manager/Owner: Centralizer or delegator?
Throughout my years as a consultant and trainer, I’ve observed and dealt with various types of product managers in agile product development, including Product Owners where Scrum is used.One of the…
Definition of Done vs. Acceptance Criteria — What is the difference?
Hi folks! Let's talk today about two terms that often get mixed up — Definition of Done and acceptance criteria. So, what do they really mean and how are they different? Let’s find out!First and…
What's the story, User Story?
Want to hear a story? Well, if you work with product development, you’ve undoubtedly come across User Stories before. You may also have learned about their use for representing work items, usually…
Product development strategy: How to create your product incrementally
There is something tricky about Scrum. It has this golden rule, which states that every single cycle, every Sprint, should produce visible and usable value for the product’s user. Mind-blowing,…
Cross functionality means time to market in our hands
Here's one important point of Scrum. When we say the Scrum team is cross-functional, meaning that they need to be able to create end-to-end things in each and every Sprint, what we want is to…
What Agile really means
We brought the late Mike Beedle to Brazil in 2014. In a small restaurant by Copacabana beach, he, I, and my partners from K21 celebrated the success of his lecture which opened the first Scrum…