Posts by Carlton Nettleton

A collection of articles, blogs, webinars, and resources. Get insights, advice, and tools created by experts in Product Management, Agile, SAFe, and Profit.

Carlton Nettleton is the former SVP of Product at Applied Frameworks, and co-creator of the company's Advanced Scrum Online Academy and Profitable Software Academy. Carlton has over twenty years of industry experience working with clients to improve quality, increase productivity, build great teams, and launch new products using Agile software development practices and techniques. Today, Carlton is the President of Look Foward Consulting and focuses on mentoring and supporting Scrum and Agile practitioners who work in less-than-ideal conditions. He shares his energy and enthusiasm with learners so they can achieve their personal and professional goals. Carlton is fluent in both English and Spanish, has written a short book on Scrum, and has been Certified Scrum Trainer® since 2012.

What We Learned from Our Product Owner Test

About a year ago, we created a Scrum Product Owner test as a teaching tool to provide our Certified Scrum Product Owner... Read More

The Scrum Master Exam Questions You’re Most Likely to Get Wrong

Practice Scrum Master Exam Question In early 2020, we created a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) practice exam to help our... Read More

Collaboration Frameworks for Product Owners & Agile Coaches

Looking to change up your Retrospective so that it is not so boring? Need a way to engage with your stakeholders so that the Read More

How to Build a Customer Journey Map

Whether your product plan is succeeding or failing, creating a customer journey map can unlock hidden truths that will help... Read More

Product Owners vs Product Managers

Product Owners vs Product Managers: How to Spot the Difference Product Owners vs Product Managers: what’s the difference?... Read More

Maximizing Software Product Profitability

While there are many great resources for understanding and documenting a business model, few give deep insight on maximizing... Read More

The Modern Definition of Product Manager

Ask a veteran product manager how they got into the field and how they became an expert. They’ll probably tell you it was... Read More

Short Definition of Scrum

I was inspired by tweet I saw highlighting Peter Stevens’ post discussing the essence of Scrum. Here is my description of... Read More

How to Create Competitive Battlecards

Competitive Battlecards are a sales enablement tool created by product managers to help the sales team close deals in the... Read More

Our 10 Most Popular Agile Essays of 2020

It’s been a long year. Although we’ve all had a little extra reading time, you might have missed a few of our most popular... Read More

Supercharge Your Product Roadmap with an Opportunity Backlog

Despite being a fixture of product management for over twenty-five years, roadmaps do not get a lot of love from product... Read More

Is the Product Owner Part of Business or Part of IT?

A frequent question I am asked during my ScrumMaster and Product Owner classes is, “How do I pick the Product Owner?” or... Read More

Impediments Backlog: They Key to Agile Adoption and Overcoming Agile Obstacles

“Scrum will highlight every deficiency and impediment that the enterprise has…”— Ken Schwaber As teams and businesses adopt... Read More

Product Management Certification: What's Missing

Product management is one of the quintessential “accidental professions” of the 21st Century that most people “fall into”... Read More

Four Helpful Hints to Avoid Agile Adoption Stall-Out

How do you run an Agile team when the surrounding environment is decidedly non-Agile? What do you do when the rest of the... Read More

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