May, 2007

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Pain without gain (ROI) or pleasure with gain (ROI).

All About Product Management

Pain with a threatened ROI or pleasure with an improved chance of a greater ROI - which one appeals to you? At the end of a waterfall project (or any project for that matter) the product manager or project manager will usually hold a ‘ lessons learnt’ session where the participants of a project that has not gone so well discuss what went wrong with the view of improving performance on the next project.

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Agile people working in a non-agile world

All About Product Management

Implementing an agile development frame work , such as Scrum , does not solve your company’s problems but helps identifies them. My current company has implemented the scrum agile management frame work. The initial results from the product mangers point of view have been quite interesting: Various stakeholders gradually changing their behaviour as they record their required enhancements and bugs fixes in the product backlog rather than emailing the Product Manager and CC-ing half the company hop

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Being up front during an interview

All About Product Management

During the past 6 months I’ve been interviewing a number people for Product Management vacancies. My company is currently experiencing rapid growth with its online products at the moment and therefore needs to build strong Product Management teams to facilitate that growth and help secure ROI. I tend to follow the same pattern for each candidate: scenario based discussions/questions that reflect key milestones in the typical product life cycle.