Pragmatic Marketing and Enthiosys are working together to create a series of offerings that focus on product management in an agile development environment. We assume you already know about product management--from one of our seminars or from your personal experience. As a product management professional, where do you need help in applying your product management experience to an agile world?
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50 votes
teach roadmapping techniques in an agile environment
Some people say you cannot have a roadmap if you're agile. That can't be right.
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42 votes
Product Requirements in an Agile Environment (and the Tools)
With Agile User Stories are written and worked on in short sprints. Since the stories are broken down into executable chunks the requirements for a given chunk may vary from the requirements of the Product. Where and How do you capture these?
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33 votes
connect agile to the Pragmatic Marketing Framework
The Pragmatic Marketing framework is pretty comprehensive. Is it still applicable in an agile world?
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28 votes
contrast product manager and product owner
Scrum calls it product owner but everyone says that product owner is the same as product manager. Really?
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17 votes
emphasize leadership in agile environments, not "tolerance"
The title "living in an agile world" sounds like we're taking about grinning and bearing through the transition to Agile product development. I think the focus of the conversation should be on leadership, not just tolerance. There's an enormous opportunity for Scrum and other XPM meth... more
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12 votes
explain the meetings and my participation
Daily stand-ups, weekly demos, retrospectives. There sure seem to be more meetings than there used to be. Which do I attend? Which do I run?
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11 votes
use case studies
I find that case studies and hands-on session really cement the concepts better than a lecture-only format.
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10 votes
explain the major principles of agile
Everyone assumes that I know what "Agile" means but they pull terms like "transparency" and "the team." I feel silly asking them to explain everything.
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6 votes
discuss design documents to write before each sprint
What are the optimal (and minimal) set of requirements, design, and specification documents to write before a sprint. How much business, market, and technology analysis, design, and write-up should occur while still remaining agile?
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3 votes
explain the required roles
What are the required roles in agile such as product owner, scrum master, and others? What about design, QA, project manager?
