http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com daily 1 2007-08-09T09:00:10Z http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/08/lets-talk-about-the-backlog Since the backlog is the prioritized list of necessary work, it’s pretty natural for some teams to assign its maintenance to the Product Manager. At first glance, that seems to make sense…. but then, we begin diving in and realize that perhaps, there is a better way. By Stacey Weber No publisher ehannan agile product management 2008-06-16T18:14:15Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/resources/ask/inability-to-get-a-product-launch-date-in-scrum-environment In our SCRUM environment, It is impossible to have an official Product Launch date that the project team can drive towards and deliver. Does SCRUM prevent us from having a product launch date that we can drive towards? My hunch is that this development team (IT and Product Manager) are having problems making the hard functionality inclusion/exclusion decisions and the PM is hiding behind this with Technology. No publisher gjoyce product management tips & tricks working with development agile product management 2008-03-24T11:36:48Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/08/lessons-from-the-eye-of-the-storm-agile-product-management-in-practice Product managers everywhere are debating how Agile affects their profession as a whole, and more specifically their own role. Here are a few lessons learned from someone who has lived through a transition to Agile. By Derek Britton No publisher gjoyce agile product management 2008-09-28T20:34:05Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/6/4/change-is-pulling-us-into-the-cloud Product Management must communicate with and understand the development team. In an Agile world, they must maintain a sequentially prioritized requirements list at all times, or be sucked into the Development cloud. By Stacey Weber No publisher ehannan product management agile product management 2008-08-28T16:56:09Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/08/lessons-from-the-eye-of-the-storm-part-2-the-genetics-of-successful-scrumming What’s the issue with Scrum Masters and Product Owners? A look at Scrum and its DNA, from a Product Manager’s perspective. By Derek Britton No publisher gjoyce agile product management 2008-09-28T20:42:37Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/08/scrum-the-product-management-challenge Why is SCRUM putting new pressures on product managers? The processes that are defined as Agile have often been hidden within the confines of software development departments. With the emergence of SCRUM, actors beyond the software development team, most notably product managers, are caught between those in an organization implementing the new approach and those that are not. By Alex Gladshtein No publisher ehannan agile product management 2008-09-09T22:48:16Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/resources/archived-webinars/xpm-extreme-product-management Webinar with Steve Johnson No publisher gjoyce product management agile product management 2008-09-16T22:11:33Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/resources/ask/scrum-and-the-product-owner I have a question about SCRUM as it applies to the Product Owner role. Can the same person who fills the product owner role also fill the Scrum Master role or do these have to be 2 different people? No publisher gjoyce tips & tricks working with development agile product management 2008-03-24T11:37:35Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/06/0606sj Building a product is like driving a train: it takes a long time to start and a longer time to stop. And once the train leaves the station, it's very hard to change direction. By Steve Johnson No publisher sjohnson product management working with development requirements agile product management 2008-07-30T15:46:51Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/08/the-politics-of-agile In the world of agile software development, it seems like Marketing and Development are in a race for control of "the product." Who will win? The flakes in Marketing or the geeks in Development? By Barbara Nelson No publisher gjoyce agile product management 2008-07-30T15:54:25Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/08/scaling-agile-processes-five-levels-of-planning Experience suggests that agile methods do not scale but planning frameworks have, in fact, been used successfully in large-scale agile projects. By Hubert Smits, Agile Coach at Rally Software. No publisher gjoyce agile product management 2008-07-30T15:55:49Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/07/does-agile-have-to-be-acrimonious Avoiding Engineering vs. Product Management disagreements in an Agile world. By Stacey Weber. No publisher gjoyce product management working with development agile product management 2007-10-31T21:21:15Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/6/1/agile-market-requirements Product managers write horrid requirements that are littered with buzzwords, ambivalent language, and non-specific performance parameters. They read like somewhat-technical marketing hype. And developers have to make sense of the requirements. By Steve Johnson No publisher mrconlon product management pragmatic marketer agile product management 2008-01-16T14:37:07Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/resources/archived-webinars/using-scrum-for-effective-product-management Webinar with Sinan Si Alhir No publisher gjoyce working with development agile product management 2008-09-16T22:02:51Z Page http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/resources/archived-webinars/using-user-stories-for-effective-product-requirements Webinar with Sinan Si Alhir No publisher gjoyce working with development agile product management 2008-09-16T22:04:16Z Page