Three Track Lean-Agile Development: Part 3 – Solution Space
Introduction In my previous two articles Why do we need a ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Product Development?, and ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Development: Part 2 – Opportunity Space , I had introduced the idea of how the product creation process is all about transformation of Ideas into Value. Success can come only after value gets created and […]
CHOW #235 – Relentless focus on new functionality
Sam is a strong product owner with clear focus on customer priorities. He interacts with customer and user groups regularly and is committed to adding value to them. He drives the priorities for three different scrum teams and demands high standards from the teams in terms of output and quality. He often finds that teams […]
CHOW # 227 – Prioritizing Work Items
Suresh, a scrum master, is preparing for the upcoming sprint planning session along with his product owner Ravi. One of their developers has suggested that the improvements to the search algorithm that she has identified, can be included in the next sprint and address the negative feedback received from the customer on search speed. However, […]
Chow #216: How best to multi task?
Raveesh was the chief architect at 9to5 corporation. He company had seen significant growth in the last 4 years in a very niche market of Enterprise Application Integration. Their eBbus – or the enterprise business bus, was highly scalable and modular in design and that helped their customers configure and deploy solutions quickly. Raveesh was […]
Chow #192 – Conflicting Methods
You are coaching John, a Product Owner, in prioritization techniques. The team predominantly works on small enhancements alongside a few major functional epics. Small enhancement features are grouped into a couple of Maintenance epics in the tool. Road-map has been prepared by the program team sharing all the epics to be completed in the next […]
3P + 2S Method for Ordering the Backlog
When it comes to higher levels of planning like road-mapping or release planning, product management has the responsibility to determine the order of work items for delivery teams. In my opinion, product owner is one of toughest roles in the agile world. Product management teams have always had to deal with market dynamics and customer […]
