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Business Analysis Digest #37

Passionate BA

by Yulia Kosarenko All images by the author This article delves into the fundamental difference between a system and a solution in the context of business analysis and product management. Internal Product Management is Hard. The Rock Crusher: Mastering Agile Backlog Management. How to Mitigate This?

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Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters?

Roman Pichler

While the role is discussed in many books and articles, I find that it is still not always correctly understood. What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. The individual is not a product backlog manager or a user story writer.

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Answer This Question: “What is Your Product?”

EBG Consulting

This essay is part of the book 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know , by Gunther Verheyen (editor). Even some of the best Scrum teams can’t answer the simple question, “What is your product?”. Refraining from narrowly scoped products, enables organizations to optimize people and resources.

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What Is Your Product?

EBG Consulting

They consider the product’s underlying technologies, components, and tools and call a logical grouping of them a “product.” This approach defines the product from an engineering perspective and not from a customer perspective. Backlog management. People Collaborating to Define Product. Role definition.

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8 Tips for Collaborating with Development Teams

Roman Pichler

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Let the ScrumMaster take on this role. Learn More.

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Using the Product Canvas to Define Your Product: Getting Started

EBG Consulting

Not having agreement on what your product has broad implications for product strategy, internal organizational design, and ongoing operations. Whether you are faced with this challenge or want to take a step back to improve your product management practices, the first step is to define your product.

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