By Eric Krock on April 15, 2011
Startups, product managers, and project managers can save time by focusing on current revenue, plans for generating revenue, whether anticipated revenue supports the company’s valuation, and what other value the company has to potential acquirers. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Leadership, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Risk, Scrum, Startup |
By Eric Krock on April 7, 2011
Covers Agile Project Management, Scrum, user stories, story points, release planning, sprints, capacity, velocity, burndown charts, the roles of the product owner, ScrumMaster, and team, key values, and classic problems with waterfall project management and product requirements documents. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Planning, Presentations, Product Management, Project Management, Release Planning |
By Eric Krock on February 21, 2011
If you’re a product manager or product marketing manager in the San Francisco Bay Are, don’t miss Silicon Valley Product Camp 2011 on April 2nd in San Jose. It’s FREE, so register now before it fills up! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Best Practices, Product Management, Training |
By Eric Krock on December 23, 2010
Are you doing web-based usability testing for your web-based software? If not, start now. Your user experience will improve rapidly! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Best Practices, Design, Product Management, Tools, User Experience |
By Eric Krock on December 22, 2010
Putting “placeholders” in the application user interface is a bad practice that conflicts with Agile development methodology, the conversational model of development, and frequent usability testing. If a feature or object isn’t serving some purpose today, it shouldn’t be in the user interface at all. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Best Practices, Design, Product Management, User Experience |
By Eric Krock on November 11, 2010
When planning a release, define clear, measurable customer-specific success criteria in advance for testing whether the release succeeded. This gives the whole team a clear target to shoot for and the company an honest yardstick for measuring whether it succeeded. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Best Practices, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Road Map, Scrum |
By Eric Krock on November 10, 2010
Illustrate the size of the current backlog of committed user stories, features, and bug fixes so others understand the limits on the company’s capacity to commit new work. Use understandable metrics like number of open tickets and months to complete the current backlog if that’s all the company does. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Communication, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Road Map, Scrum, Ticket Tracking |
By Eric Krock on November 4, 2010
Many common situations create challenges for Agile and Scrum. What if the customer demands an up-front specification, schedule and cost estimate? What if they’re deploying the product on premise, have compliance, legal, or life-safety requirements, or require a lengthy product certification process? What if the customer is geographically remote or too busy for much interaction with you? Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Scrum |
By Eric Krock on September 13, 2010
Product companies can get into trouble by underestimating the true cost of professional services integrations. Follow these guidelines to reduce risk. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Best Practices, Project Management, Risk |
By Eric Krock on September 3, 2010
Agile teams say “no” today so they can say “yes” later to work that will be more important based on better information. Saying “no” can make people happy! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Best Practices, Communication, Product Management |
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