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- Agile Product Management white paper
After speaking, consulting, writing and teach about Agile Product Management, we’ve captured some of our core ideas about APM into a white paper.
“Technology companies are moving toward Agile development. This is driven by the need to improve productivity, boost product quality, and make delivery against business goals more predictable...
- I’m a persona!
One of my clients told me last week that I’ve become a persona in their development efforts (they’re building a really cool tool suite of tools—more on that as we get closer to the Agile conference). They actually say things like “Well, what would Luke want to do...
- Martha Amram is Coming to the Agile 2008 Conference
I know that many agilists are fan of Real Options theory. I know I’ve enjoyed discussing how mature agile teams create powerful options for the business...
- Unlike Size (of Firm), Experience (of Consultant) Matters
As Agile practices continue to be adopted by organizations, we’re seeing a substantial increase in the number of consulting firms providing services regarding Agile practices. That’s not surprising, as market demand motivates consulting firms to create supply. Unfortunately, what they’re supplying just isn’t all that helpful, and, in some cases, downright harmful...
- Agile Portfolio Planning and Excited CFOs
At Enthiosys, we look at how Agile Product Management changes the broader organization and strategic planning processes – well beyond Engineering. We’re thinking more about how Agile alters one of the most celebrated annual corporate ceremonies: Portfolio Planning and budget allocation...
- Purpose of the Agile Alliance
I’m sitting here in the Boston airport getting ready to fly home from a very productive Agile Alliance Board meeting. We ran most of the meeting as an open space, with all the of the virtues and some of the concerns that open space entails.
One session for which the entire board had energy/passion is the purpose of the Agile Alliance...
- May-7-08: “Chefs & Grocers” webinar on SaaS
Rich Mironov presented a webinar on May 7th called “Grocers and Chefs: Service-Model Thinking for Product-Model Folks.” This was part of Ryma Technology’s ongoing Product Management View webinar series.
When: May 7th
Download the presentation here.
Download the podcast here.
Download the flash presentation here...
- Infrastructure Field of Dreams
We work with lots of clients on internal infrastructure and shared architecture projects – both from a product management/requirements and evaluating the software architecture itself...
- Don’t Let Discrete User Stories Hurt Overall Usability
I just logged into the Marriott rewards program web site to purchase some additional Marriott rewards points for my account. Unfortunately, I have to take a quick break from this task to write this blog.
Now, stay with me and help me understand if this makes sense to you.
I sign into the site using my Marriott rewards number and password...
- “Remember the Future” in Recruiting
Remember the Future is an Innovation Game® that enables to generate a rich and detailed understanding of what “success” looks like for products and services. But it can be used for more than just products and services...
- Top 10 Things an Architect Should Know
I’m fortunate enough to share thoughts and ideas with some of the world’s foremost software architects in a few private groups. Recently, Richard Monson-Haefel started a discussion about the top 10 things an architect should know. Of course, I contributed some ideas, and, I’m really honored that Richard thought enough of these ideas to include them in his final result...
- The Accidental Agilist
Over the last few months, we’ve repeatedly heard about product managers who come back from customer visits or vacations to discover that their engineering teams have “gone agile” without telling them. After which, the PMs scramble to figure out how their roles and deliverables are different under a new development model...
- Feb-27-08: “Aligning Business Models” Webinar
Luke Hohmann, Enthiosys CEO, is featured in a February 27th Product Management View webinar series hosted by FeaturePlan.
When: February 27, 2008, 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST
Where: register here
“Aligning Business Models and Technology Architectures”
You’re a software product manager because you love creating great products, not just for the fame and fortune...
- Entropy Reduction and Sustainable Agile Development
A recent post by Ryan Marten of Rally Software describes a “cool down” process for a team at the end of a release. In my book “Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions“ I refer to this as an entropy reduction episode...
- Technical Advantage and Competitive Strategy
Products with true technical advantage are rare – and fleeting. Most offerings are lightly differentiated, or not at all. When I hear product folks touting their unbeatable technical superiority, I stop to listen for the footsteps of competitors...
- Some Answers to “What’s Collaboration?”
In my last post, I shared some questions I received about collaboration from Chad, a graduate student studying collaboration for his thesis. I had fun answering these questions, as I was able to revisit and reinterpret my thoughts from when I wrote “Journey of the Software Professional.” Looking forward to your thoughts and comments on this topic.
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- What’s Collaboration?
My friend and colleague Ken Collier introduced me to Chad, who is getting an advanced degree and is studying the concept of collaboration for his thesis. Chad’s going to interview me, and in advance of the interview sent me these questions. I’ll post my answers next, but, before reading my answers, I’m interested in hearing yours...
- PDMA Journal Reviews Innovation Games®
In the November issue of PDMA’s Journal of Product Innovation Management, Christina Brodie reviewed Luke Hohmann’s “Innovation Games®: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play.”
She noted that “experienced facilitators will have no difficulty using the games and in fact will find these 12 games a useful way to stimulate innovative thinking...
- Agile Alliance Dec-07 Board Meeting, Programs, Commitments
Last weekend I attended my second Agile Alliance Board meeting. The first was at the Agile Alliance conference, when I was elected, but we didn’t really cover a lot of “new ground”, as the goal of that first meeting was a hand-off from the previous Board (thank you to them for their hard work). Since then, our Board has been meeting monthly via a teleconference...
- A Planetary View of Agile Product Management
We at Enthiosys are often asked how the shift to Agile changes product management. We normally see PM at the center of everything, so it’s natural to think about other functional organizations as planets in product-centric orbits – and what happens when we move to Agile.
Product management is involved with most internal groups, but not equally and not all at the same time...
- buzz: QCON learns about software architecture
Luke Hohmann’s 8-Nov presentation at QCON/SF drew lots of attention and coverage.
SD Times quoted him extensively in a piece headlined Use the Force, Luke. “Hohmann began his talk by revealing an exercise he uses when he is first called in as a software development consultant: He asks everyone on the development team to draw his or her view of the architecture...
- buzz: David Alfaro blogs on importance of Roadmaps to Scrum
David is a facilitator and ScrumMaster at Artinsoft. The most recent post on his “Scrum Costa Rica” blog is called “Agile is about Reality not Fairy Tales” and talks about the importance of roadmapping for Scrum, plus the crucial role of the Product Owner in defining profitability, user stories and adaptive software models...
- QCON presentation: Managing Architectural Change
Luke Hohmann’s presentation at November’s QCON San Francisco, a joint effort of InfoQ and JAOO, covered software architecture and its relation to agile processes. See the full presentation here in PDF.
An important part of the talk dealt with roadmaps, agile development, and finding strategic value in both short-term and longer-term planning artifacts
- agile use case template
Use cases are an important part of the agile development process: each defines one specific activity or process from the user’s point of view. (Users can also be other systems or consumers of your product’s output.)
Here’s a simple use case template that you can clone for each activity or interaction
- SaaS “chefs and grocers” presentation
The original version of this presentation was given as an April 2007 talk for SVPMA describing the difficult shift from licensed software to hosted services (software-as-a-service). It relentlessly analogized as chefs versus grocers...
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