Remove Agile Remove Software Review Remove Technical Advisors
article thumbnail

The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. We’d made great code. Similar, right?

article thumbnail

Sprint Planning Tips for Product Owners

Roman Pichler

For advise on when to carry out product backlog grooming, please see my article “ When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? ”. Software development is an exciting but demanding profession. Unforeseen things can happen in software development including people falling ill and a server going down. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset. probably more valuable?—?product

article thumbnail

How We Dealt With Project Challenges: An Agile Approach in a Deadline-driven Development

The Product Coalition

Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to develop successful software projects in spite of many challenges. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

article thumbnail

13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager. Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background. Interviewing users and customers.

article thumbnail

Product Tours In 2021: The Ultimate Guide

Userpilot

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Using product tour software is a better decision. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot. Using the same example, imagine that you're going through the different tooltips in this rather basic product tour for project management software.

article thumbnail

The Mythical Product Owner

Pragmatic Marketing

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Since the Agile process was created by tactical teams, it concentrates on development practices.