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 March 29, 2011
Your mind is only as free as you make it. Beware unchallenged assumptions. They are a prison for your mind that you build yourself! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Case Studies, Organizational Behavior, Planning, Product Management, Risk, Road Map, Security |
By Eric Krock on March 15, 2011
When doing product or project management, pay special attention to big potential risks that are causing no symptoms today. It is these risks that you’re most likely to underinvest in addressing and therefore these risks that are most likely to cause big problems in the future. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Case Studies, Cost, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Psychology, Risk |
By Eric Krock on February 8, 2011
To reduce the risk of biasing yourself (and others), avoid stating a position on an issue before you have to. Start by asking questions with an open mind, learning, and hearing what others have to say. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Psychology |
By Eric Krock on February 3, 2011
Detect when you’re wrong by seeing how many people disagree with you and why, testing your opinions against the facts and each other, testing your predictions against the future, and comparing your success with that of the best. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Psychology |
By Eric Krock on January 28, 2011
It takes a special kind of stupidity (one-step thinking) to shut down Internet and mobile phone access to an entire country. Learn from Hosni Mubarak’s mistake. Think about ALL of the consequences of your proposal before implementing it. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Collaboration, Communication, Leadership, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Risk |
By Eric Krock on January 25, 2011
To earn engineering’s trust, study, be honest, and listen. Consider technical issues, but stick to your guns on user experience. Talk to customers directly. Respect their time by limiting requirements, minimizing meetings, and following process. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Leadership, Planning, Product Management, Project Management |
By Eric Krock on January 20, 2011
Calculating return on investment for a single feature may make perfect sense. Asking that a product manager calculate return on investment for every feature almost never makes sense and is likely to become an exercise in “garbage in, garbage out.” Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Planning, Product Management, Road Map |
By Eric Krock on December 2, 2010
Engineers are often willing to make extra effort when you work with them respectfully, explain the business need, jointly search for alternatives, and find no other way. Work WITH them to bring in the release date, not against them! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Risk, Road Map |
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