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| Related DevelopMentor Courses | MORE | | Minimal Viable Team to create a Minimally Viable Product Despite being a bit of a mouthful to say “Minimal Viable Product” and the even more difficult to say “Minimally Marketable Feature” (also known as a “Quantum of Value” or “Business Value Increment”) are very useful concepts. What makes gives them killer power is that they speak to a secret belief held by many people (not just managers) that teams gold-plate development and create products with more than is needed. The same applies to product development: saying Yes to a feature is easy, saying No is hard, but unless you say No a lot more than Yes you won’t have a MVP. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 8, 2012 You are not Steve Jobs (and don't try to be him) Jobs was a perfectionist: products didn’t get launched unless he approved of them. Jobs would spurn products/employees who he didn’t think were up to scratch: if employees are loyal to the company and to you, and if you have a deep talent pool, and (perhaps) the stock-options are worth a lot you might get away with this. Apple products are simple because they lack so much, once launched they are refined and elaborated in the market. Thus we have the discipline of Product Management to help us. it is a copy). Here are a few examples. It seems incredible now. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, November 18, 2011 Heresy: My warped, crazy, wrong version of Agile Here is where I feel I differ from the Agile mainstream, or perhaps, just Scrum: I don’t it is wrong to carry work from one sprint/iteration to the next I don’t believe in Scrum Masters; where Scrum Masters exists I think they are a kind-of Project Manager; and I believe Scrum Master Certification is a con (but I would, wouldn’t I?) I increasingly feel that the way I interpret Agile, the practices and the processes, if different to the rest of the world. Yet clients of mine report some success (I even have a couple of case studies ). Perhaps this was despite me rather than because of me. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, February 9, 2012 |
208 Articles match "Management","Products"
| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile. Could it be that the Product Owners are not sufficiently flexible in what they are asking for and are therefore setting the team up to fail each sprint? We’re back to the Project Managers old friend “The Iron Triangle.” Inevitably (with critical bugs and change requests that the management deem necessary to complete in this sprint (often)) the work increases during the sprint, too.” So go up your management chain until you find someone who sees you have a problem and would like it fixed, if they don’t have the money then carry on up the chain. And yo have Jira? Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 28, 2013 A Roundup of MongoDB Management Tools Back in the early days, there really were no management tools analogous to RDBMS tools (e.g. SQL Server Management Studio ). It’s time to look around and see what management / monitoring tooling is around these days for MongoDB. Robomongo — is a shell-centric cross-platform open source MongoDB management tool (i.e. User management. My take : Robomongo is definitely my current favorite management tool for MongoDB. Now there is one less worry in managing your web-scale data. User Managment. Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio! Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Monday, April 22, 2013 Requirements and Specifications 'As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” So now I turned to a standard textbook on requirements: Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services by Alexander and Beus-Dukis. which I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” and so I’ve been giving a lot of thought to requirements. Bear with me, I’ll come back to this point at the end.) So I turned to my bookshelves…. turned to the index and…. nothing. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Product Management an open secret, a differenciator
At the Skills Matter Agile Lean Kanban exchange the other week someone - sorry I missed you name - told me about a report from the BBC on Product Management. It turns out the report is from a branch of the BBC I didn’t know about, “BBC Academy” and it entitled “The State of Product Management 2010.” Its well worth reading if you have an interest in Product Management or the UK software development scene. Although I’ve not blogged about it for a while Product Management is one of my passions. They assume that the Project Manager knows. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - Managing requirements in Agile development
I make no apologies for blogging again about Product Management because it is important and because, on the whole. So Product Management is a long run play. That is one of two reasons why Agile methods tend to underplay requirements and “Product Ownership” - because you get a lot of benefits by ignoring them to start with. Project Managers often try and fill the void but their training and inclination is very different. In the UK confusion between Project and Product management is rampant. This is really sad but also really dangerous. Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, November 2, 2008 - When did Scrum start loving project managers?
One of the things I’ve always found paradoxical about Scrum (specifically Scrum TM ) is its position on management. On the one hand, Scrum is very management friendly - see my Scrum has Three Advantages over XP post. Basically Scrum has done a very good job of marketing itself to managers. Hidden inside the tasty Scrum case is a sometimes evangelical dislike of managers, and in particular project managers. Note there is no role of project manager in Scrum. In response to the a question from a project manager “What does a project manager do in Scrum?” Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - A Roundup of MongoDB Management Tools
Back in the early days, there really were no management tools analogous to RDBMS tools (e.g. SQL Server Management Studio ). It’s time to look around and see what management / monitoring tooling is around these days for MongoDB. Robomongo — is a shell-centric cross-platform open source MongoDB management tool (i.e. User management. My take : Robomongo is definitely my current favorite management tool for MongoDB. Now there is one less worry in managing your web-scale data. User Managment. Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio! - Manage Your Christmas Card List
In my household, my wife manages the Christmas card mailing list. Crowd Space ( [link] ) is the flagship product of my little web company. It’s perhaps a tad embarrassing that it never occurred to me before that Crowd Space would be ideal for Christmas mailing list management. Crowd Space also tracks birthdays and prints birthday reports so after Christmas you can use it to manage your birthday card mailings all year long! web-based tool for group / membership management. Here’s a quick rundown of why Crowd Space is a great solution for this: 1. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Thursday, December 17, 2009 - Minimal Viable Team to create a Minimally Viable Product
Despite being a bit of a mouthful to say “Minimal Viable Product” and the even more difficult to say “Minimally Marketable Feature” (also known as a “Quantum of Value” or “Business Value Increment”) are very useful concepts. What makes gives them killer power is that they speak to a secret belief held by many people (not just managers) that teams gold-plate development and create products with more than is needed. The same applies to product development: saying Yes to a feature is easy, saying No is hard, but unless you say No a lot more than Yes you won’t have a MVP. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 8, 2012 - Software Facts - well, numbers at least
About a year ago I needed some numbers about software development - industry norms really: effectiveness, productivity, bug counts etc. It is counter productivity to invest in tools before resolving organisational and methodology issues. Productivity and quality seem to be better in object oriented languages Documentation & Bugs Producing paper documents for software development is more expensive than producing software itself Up to 400 words may be written in specification for every line of code in large systems. But he does have lots of interesting facts and numbers. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, January 14, 2011 %>
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