Building Great Products, Incrementally: An Agile Product Owner's Primer
Tue, 2008-01-22 23:16 — Alex Pukinskis
Agile development allows product managers to use tight scope control to deliver products to market fast and solve more customer problems. But sometimes, “minimum credible” gets pushed too far, and teams release incomplete features that frustrate their customers.
In this tutorial, we’ll explore how an effective agile product manager can tightly manage scope, deliver features fast, and make time to refine designs and incorporate customer feedback. You’ll learn how to balance new development, feedback, and debt management to satisfy stakeholders while building a great product.
Process/Mechanics
This tutorial will be an interactive lecture including discussion and an excercise.
Agenda
- Tutorial Overview/Introductions (5 minutes)
- The Agile Product Paradox: How Agile enables you to make better products faster, but also thinner products faster (15 minutes)
- What does “Minimum Credible” mean? How much scope control is enough? (10 minutes)
- Managing Stakeholder Expectations (30 minutes)
- Blending Backlogs: Different types of needs (10 minutes)
- Exercise: Rocks, Gravel, and Sand (10 minutes)
- Exercise debrief and summary (10 minutes)