I’ve given Agile Product Ownership talks at a few conferences and the response has been great. BAs and BA leaders are beginning to see their connection to product ownership functions, but they are also discovering that there is a huge gap in the industry about what...
Is project documentation wearing you down into a zombie-like state? Are you spending all your time updating requirements and managing sign-off instead of helping your team think strategically about the value you are providing to end-users and the organization? In a...
As a practitioner of mindset over methodology and value over process, the Agile2016 conference was a giant slice of professional heaven! The conference was put on by Agile Alliance, an organization that promotes the “Big Tent of Agile”–meaning agile...
Can you guess the number one question I get from requirements leaders across the world? Whether their team is agile, traditional or hybrid, whether their team has 2 members or 250, whether they are creating cutting edge products or maintaining legacy systems, their...
Over the years, I’ve helped many teams find success by identifying and removing roadblocks. One roadblock that seems to be appearing with greater frequency is “project prominence”— an emphasis on the project over the product or solution being delivered. Teams spend so...
