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Rethinking Typical Project Management Approaches "Don't work on projects, work on products!" is a cry often heard in the agile community. But if you have a team pulled together to support an ongoing product, it doesn't make sense to use typical project management techniques. Maybe projects aren't the problem—their organizational structures are. |
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What Is Business Value and How Do You Measure It? Agile approaches have changed the conversation about measuring project success, from comparing against cost, time, and scope projections to looking at how much value the project is going to deliver. The problem that remains, however, is determining what value really is and how to measure it. |
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Using Product Economics for Feature Prioritization When planning for feature prioritization, it’s crucial for you to take into account product economics. Sameh Zeid writes that product economics helps us to understand if it is financially viable to develop a product, even more so than relying on business value. |
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Measuring Development Time: Not the Best Way to Spend Your Time Managers and project managers are often obsessed with measuring the time it takes to do a task. Time is useful to consider, but measuring time doesn’t always give us the information we really want or need. It's true that work takes time, but it's more valuable to measure results and value delivered. |
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How to Do Agile Release Planning In agile, there are different types of planning at various intervals and levels of detail. One of those levels is release planning, which is the intermediary type of planning between deciding what is included in a product and what the delivery team will focus on for the next iteration. |
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The Difference between Outcome and Output in Product Development To be successful in product development, we must minimize the number of product features while also delivering what the customer will like. In other words, product development success is governed by our ability to maximize the “outcome” rather than “output” of product development. |
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Should We Revisit Scrum's Product Owner Role? With so many business people betting their money on Scrum, do organizations have the right set of people lined up to deliver projects using a Scrum methodology? Venkatesh Krishnamurthy ponders whether or not we should revisit Scrum's product owner role. |
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Why the Product Owner's Role Is Evolving Due to the popularity of Scrum, the idea of having a product owner has taken hold of development professionals and is used by teams that are not even using Scrum. With this industry-wide adoption, the definition of product ownership and the product owner's role has evolved. |
