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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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The 5 Best Agile Books for 2021

Vitality Chicago

I am frequently asked about the best books for learning about agile and Scrum. I have nearly 100 books on agile-related topics and there are so many new agile books published every year that it is difficult to keep up! As we head into 2021, I thought I would share my lists of best agile books. Product Owners.

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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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Business Analysts to Watch in 2024

Passionate BA

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with a bunch of seasoned business analysts about education, books, resources to learn from, etc. Author of numerous books, a software development consultant, speaker, trainer, songwriter, and just a great person! Renowned book author. Learning from Karl is always a pleasure.

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The analysis behind small experiments in product discovery

Analysts Corner

Frameworks like Dual Track Agile from Marty Cagan’s book “Inspired” influenced organizations to split their efforts into product discovery and delivery. The Discovery track is all about quickly generating validated product backlog items, and the Delivery track is all about generating releasable software.

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Growth Mindset in Product Management

Roman Pichler

But with effort, resilience, and patience, as well as the guidance from others, I have managed to become a reasonably skilled writer. This leads to a fixed mindset , where people see themselves as good or bad at something—be it writing, singing, drawing, or product management—and they believe that there is not much they can do about it.

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Analyst’s corner digest #18

Analysts Corner

For those interested in AI and data, there is a list of 5 recommended books to get you started with AI, as well as an opinion on how generative AI is going to change requirements development. > Keep reading… Future and AI 1) How Generative AI Changes Requirements Management. > Keep reading… 3) Replacing Legacy. AI Pitfalls?