Before we answer this question, we need to take a step back and understand the philosophy behind the term ‘Sprint’ in an Agile methodology. What is a Sprint? It is an iterative cycle time in which an Agile team (comprising of developers, testers, product owners, UI/UX, business analysts etc.) does software development activities. Few attributes […]
Disagreements are not always bad. It just shows that the individuals have a different opinion on a topic. Sometimes its healthy to have these disagreements to have a balance of thoughts in the team. Of course, it has to be in good spirit without getting toxic. A product owner would like to get as much […]
Product manager’s role is a very exciting one, where on one hand they have to manage the customers, business stakeholders and senior management team on one hand, while on the other hand, they have to be adept at handling the delivery teams for their product. Hence, it’s a combination of both art & science in […]
The main people responsible for the business case preparation in an Agile environment would be: Product owners, product managers, Head of product, Director of product, and in case of a govt. organisation you would have few additional roles of Digital service managers (DSM) and Service responsible officers (SRO). Depending upon the structure, culture & policies […]
Development and release has happened based on your requirements. Now, there may be changes / enhancements on that original requirement. It is a very good practice to keep a note of changes happening on requirements as a result of such enhancements. You will be surprised how many business & product teams do not do that. […]
In a big company, you could find a central digital product team comprising of a few product owners, UI/UX specialists, probably business analysts, product managers, data analysts, and the head of / director product. Their core function is to serve the products & services for their end clients. In order to do so, they would […]
The career paths could be varied depending upon the interest of the individual. I am assuming that the product owner wants to continue in the digital product management field. The below diagram explains one of the various pathways that a product professional could have, out of which the most common one is explained below. The […]
This is one of the most important skills to have as a digital product manager – Product prioritisation. It is never easy as you will have pressing items coming from various sources, and most of them expect it to be incorporated in the product’s next release. But we know that the capacity & resources to […]
One of the best structures for multiple product manager roles in an organization is where every PM has a clear boundary of their product area – which could be a specific user journey(s), or a complete product on its own. For e.g. if Amazon.com is a digital product, there would be many product managers involved […]
What is an MVP – This is the acronym for ‘Minimum Viable Product’, which is commonly used in the digital product industry, when we have to mention that we are creating the first version of the full product. This is most appropriate in the following situations – Conceptualizing a new product idea: In this case, […]