Clean Your Backlogs

I’ve been working at the intersection of the project portfolio and the product roadmaps. (You can tell because of the…

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When is “Agile Scaling” the Answer?

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think…

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Product Planning, Information Persistence & Product Lifetime

I’ve been thinking a lot about planning recently. Many of my clients want to create long-term plans, based on data…

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Strategy Behind More Agile Budgeting, Part 2

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. I didn’t tell you why. How do you…

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Tactical Ideas for Agile Budgeting, Part 1

Too often, organizations want to budget for an entire year. The managers run around for two or three months in…

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Product Roles, Part 8: Summary: Collaborate at All Levels for the Product

Too many teams have overloaded Product Owners. The teams and PO have trouble connecting the organization’s strategy to what the…

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Product Roles, Part 7: Collaboration Can Shorten Feedback Loops

I started this series with the question: If we have teams for all other aspects of an agile approach, why…

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Product Roles, Part 6: Shorten Feedback Loops

I started this series discussing the issue of the various product-based roles in an agile organization. I suggested a product…

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Product Roles, Part 5: Component Teams to Create Slices

As I’ve written these product role posts, a number of you have asked about how to use component teams. You…

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