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- So When Do I Need a Product Owner?
{this post continues a lively discussion we started with “Revenue products need Product Managers, not Product Owners” and continues with “How Do We Define Product Owners?” Comments and emails are flying furiously on this, so please post a comment below or link back to your own blog...
- How Are We Defining Product Owners?
{My last post “Revenue Products need Product Managers, not Product Owners” generated a lot of comments and emails about the product owner role. In particular, I appreciate some energetic observations from Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, which led to this follow-on thought. A third part of the discussion is “When Do I Need a Product Owner...
- Dean Leffingwell on ‘Product Owner vs. Product Manager’
In his widely read and well-respected “Scaling Software Agility” blog, Dean Leffingwell expanded on our recent Product Bytes post as part of the community’s broader discussion of roles in Agile product teams… “The folks at Enthiosys recently published the following article Revenue Products need Product Managers, not Product Owners...
- Forrester: Enthiosys and Google have Serious Gaming Apps that “Do Work”
In an August 19th report called “It’s Time To Take Games Seriously”, Forrester analysts TJ Keitt and Paul Jackson cover the emerging market for serious gaming. They created a category of serious games that “do work” and named two specific examples: Google’s Image Labeler and Enthiosys’ Buy A Feature Online...
- Revenue Products need Product Managers, not Product Owners
{This has kicked off a lively discussion and two follow-on posts: So When Do I Need a Product Owner? and How Are We Defining Product Owners? Enjoy! – Rich Mironov} Product Managers are responsible for the overall market success of their products, not just the delivery of software...
- Upcoming boook: “The Art of Product Management”
Scheduled for late 2008, this book by Rich Mironov collects the most popular Product Bytes columns from 2002-2008 with forewords by Prof Henry Chesbrough and David Strom. Tentative title is “The Art of Product Management: Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator...
- Tips on Selling Qualitative Market Research to Agile Software Developers
This article was written for QRCA, the Qualitative Research Consultants Association. Agile Software Development is the hottest topic in the software development community. It is a new way of developing software that is producing higher quality software in record time...
- Enough With The Blades and Razors - Show Me Beard!
I’ve been meaning to write this blog for a long time. A conversation today finally pushed me over the edge. Hope you enjoy. I was working with a product manager, helping him better understand how to prioritize his backlog for profit. As we discussed internal and external stakeholders, he told me about some of the key problems his customers faced...
How to Use Forward Momentum to Look Backward
Another school year is kicking off again, and that brings new challenges for parents, students, and educators, as their schedules change and their responsibilities evolve...
Market Driven Competitive Advantage
Your strategy should be driven by the needs of the market. Becoming market-driven is critical to intentional product success. But it is not enough to understand your market. You have to sustain your understanding, and take advantage of it, competitively. Markets Evolve Over Time We all acknowledge that markets are not completely static. If they were, there would be no impetus for innovation...
- Prioritizing for Profit
Product managers (and product owners) prioritize their backlogs a lot of different ways. If they don’t keep an eye on business value and revenue, however, PMs can let their products drift away from meeting overall corporate goals...
- Agile 2008 Attendees Collaborate to Create New Products
On Tuesday and Wednesday (Aug 5-6) at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto, hundreds of attendees joined Enthiosys, the Agile Product Management consulting company, in a real-time collaborative exercise to design a new product. These Agilists collaborated with Enthiosys to define, prioritize, schedule and price a new generation of “Internet Sunglasses”. See a short video on YouTube...
- Business Press Covers Enthiosys/Borland Announcement
A broad set of business press picked up our joint announcement with Borland demonstrating integration of Innovation Games® at Agile 2008 in Toronto. We’re excited to be on the national business news RADAR! Click each logo below… Plus an interesting note called “Crowdsourcing, serious gaming + prediction markets” on Online Gaming.DailyTidbit...
Agile2008: Converting business value into actual money
At Agile2008, Luke Hohmann from Enthiosys talked about converting business value into actual money. Luke said prioritizing the backlog by ROI doesn’t work and suggested developing attributes for backlog prioritization that drive profitable growth...
Agile2008: Converting business value into actual money.
At Agile2008, Luke Hohmann from Enthiosys talked about converting business value into actual money. Luke said prioritizing the backlog by ROI doesn’t work and suggested developing attributes for backlog prioritization that drive profitable growth...
- Agile-08 Repeat Performance and Slides
The Enthiosys team just got back from the Agile conference. What an amazing conference! It was a whirlwind of activity of our company...
Crowdsourcing, serious gaming + prediction markets.
“One of Enthiosys’ original Innovation Games, Buy a Feature brings together participants who are given limited amounts of ‘virtual’ currency, which they can then use to buy product features they deem most valuable...
Agile Product Management Consultancy Enthiosys Speaks on Four Platforms During Agile 2008 Conference
Luke Hohmann Speaking Platforms; August 5, 6, & 8 WHO: Luke Hohmann, founder and CEO of Enthiosys. Luke is a recognized expert on Agile product management of software products and a former product executive at four companies. He is also the author of three books and numerous articles on software product management and Agile development...
Agile Product Management Consultancy Enthiosys Speaks on Four Platforms During Agile 2008 Conference
Luke Hohmann Speaking Platforms; August 5, 6, & 8 WHO: Luke Hohmann, founder and CEO of Enthiosys. Luke is a recognized expert on Agile product management of software products and a former product executive at four companies. He is also the author of three books and numerous articles on software product management and Agile development...
- Prioritizing for Profit (Part 3 of 3)
In my last two posts I outlined many reasons why prioritizing a product backlog for ROI doesn’t work and suggested a core set of prioritization attributes that Agile Product Managers should use to prioritize their backlog...
- Developing Attributes for Product Backlog Prioritization (Part 2 of 3)
In my last post I outlined many reasons why prioritizing a product backlog for ROI doesn’t work. In this second post of a three part set, I’ll explain how experienced Agile Product Managers select prioritization attributes that enable them to efficiently prioritize their backlog to produce the best near and long-term results...
- Why Prioritizing Your Product Backlog for ROI Doesn’t Work (Part 1 of 3)
There is a problem in the Agile community. Pundits tell us to prioritize our backlogs to generate the best possible ROI. But no agile teams that I’ve ever worked for or with do this. So the pundits must be wrong, because Agile continues to provide stellar results for a lot of product teams...
- Disruptive Pricing Units
During a miserable week of domestic air travel during June, I noticed new fees suddenly appearing for checked baggage and in-flight soft drinks. That caused an announcement about a new airline to catch my eye – an airline offering a radically different approach to pricing. It re-raised a topic that we explore with many clients: shifting the basis of competition by changing pricing units...
- Do you want schwag or something You Can Actually Use?
A friend of mine, David Nunn, is coming to the Agile-08 conference in Toronto (are you?). In a lighthearted reply to asking David if he’s going to visit our booth, David pointed out that he’ll come by… if we have some fun schwag. Which got me thinking about schwag...
- Innovation in 3 Steps — Core Lessons from SAP
Innovation continues to be a hot topic in the business press. That’s not terribly surprising, because no matter how much cost you squeeze out of your processes, you’ve got to innovate to grow. Unfortunately, a lot of companies just flat out get Innovation wrong...