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Software Development
Prioritising a Product Backlog When Everything is Important
The product backlog is an essential product management tool: It captures detailed product decisions and directs the work of the…
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Agile
Are Feature Teams or Component Teams Right for Your Product?
Whenever you require more than a single development team to progress your product, you have choice: You can organise the…
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Agile
How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges
No Transactional Power Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in…
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Software Development
Leveraging Software Platforms
Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let…
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Agile
Release Planning Advice
Release planning is an important task for product people working with agile teams: It ensures that the product is moving…
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Agile
How to Reduce the Product Backlog Size
While it’s normal that a product backlog changes, some backlogs grow too big and become overly long and detailed. Consequently,…
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Agile
Should Product Roadmaps Have Dates?
If product roadmaps should show dates is a controversial question. Some people have passionately argued that dates should be banned…
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Agile
10 Scaling Tips for Product People
Managing a growing product can be as rewarding as challenging: Involving more people and teams and scaling up is hardly…
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Agile
Technical Debt and Product Success
Similar to a company experiencing financial debt, products can incur “technical debt”: This happens when wrong or suboptimal architecture, technology,…
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