article thumbnail

How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

This sequential, waterfall-based approach used to work when there was little change and innovation, when product managers could correctly predict what the users needed and describe the detailed product functionality upfront. But it is less suited to create complex digital products. The Brave New Agile World.

article thumbnail

Why Product People Should Care About Business Strategy

Roman Pichler

What is the company’s vision? Think, for instance, of Google’s vision “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Where will you play? What is your winning aspiration? Why does your organisation exist? Instead, strategy is about increasing the chances of being successful.

Vision 102
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

This sequential, waterfall-based approach used to work when there was little change and innovation, when product managers could correctly predict what the users needed and describe the detailed product functionality upfront. But it is less suited to create complex digital products. The Brave New Agile World.

article thumbnail

What Are Types of Product Owners

The BAWorld

He/she is well equipped with a vision of the product that is to be fashioned and the same vision is delivered to the team while setting a milestone of the Product’s journey from ideas to implementations and finally to the launch. Hence, the crucial responsibility of a Product Owner is product backlog management.

Vision 52
article thumbnail

Key considerations of digital transformation: organisation – PODCAST

Clarasys

Here we dive deep into the third key consideration when embarking on a digital transformation: organisation. In our latest podcast, Clarasys’ own Ben Lover, Helen Morgan and Moray Busch explore what organisations must focus on during a digital transformation and the four-stage model of change to enable success.

article thumbnail

8 Tips for Collaborating with Development Teams

Roman Pichler

Developing a successful digital product requires more than technical knowledge. If, however, you feel overwhelmed by the team’s questions, then coach the team to help people see the bigger picture and involve the team in product backlog management and user story creation. Help the Team See the Bigger Picture.

article thumbnail

Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

The role is not called product administrator, feature broker, product backlog manager, user story writer, or project manager—even though that’s sometimes how it is interpreted. But you can think of the product owner as an agile product manager, as I explain in the article “ Product Manager vs. Product Owner ”.