Applied Frameworks Splash

Product

How Your Roadmap Can Get You the Right Customers

Guest post by Janna Bastow If there’s one topic that gets product managers talking, it’s the age-old question of whether... Read More

Product

How to Set Pricing Which Reflects Customer Value

Pricing is all about value. “Must have” capabilities are more expensive than “nice to have.” So what’s the value to the... Read More

Process

Main Reasons Why I Avoid Sprint Zero

Avoid Sprint Zero – Try Liftoff I have never been a big fan of the concept of Sprint Zero. Recently, I heard a story from a... Read More

Process

Get the Data to Remove the Really Hard Impediments

I was looking through some old notes and found this question from a LinkedIn group. “Has anyone experienced where... Read More

Process

Purpose of a Sprint Backlog

I came across this question\comment on the LinkedIn ScrumMasters group the other day asking about Burndown Charts and... Read More

Process

Scale Scrum and Agile with LeSS Framework

As it turns out, there is a way to do Scrum at scale and it’s name is LeSS – referring to the idea that less is the key to... Read More

Process

Customer Interviews: Analyzing the Data

She analyzes synergies, or synergizes analogies… or some such thing.—Edward Norton (as “Father Brian Finn”), Keeping the... Read More

Process

Customer Interviews: How to Conduct the Interview

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.—Peter Drucker, American management... Read More

Process

Customer Interviews: Getting Ready

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.—Winston Churchill, British prime minister Read More

Process

Onshore ScrumMaster Offshore Team Does NOT Work

A recent question in the Certified Scrum ProfessionalsLinkedIn Group, described a common scenario that people have when... Read More

Product

The Path From Development to Product Management

A reader asks: What should I know about moving from a developer role to product management? First, congratulations!... Read More

Product

Ten Product Management Templates You CANNOT Do Without

Back before we were all online all the time, I kept a notebook of all the living documents for my product. Nowadays I keep... Read More

Product

Product Opportunity Evaluation Matrix | via Mind the Product

In A Framework For Evaluating Market Opportunity, Neal Cabage asks: How do you know whether a product idea is going to... Read More

Process

Why Is Commitment Important to Scrum

Commitment is essential to Scrum since it lies at the fundamental core of Scrum – personal accountability, the drive for... Read More

Product

Product Management Skills: Technology, Market, Domain & Business

In recent years, we’ve seen new definitions for old titles and many new titles being created. We’ve got product managers,... Read More