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Agile product management

Agile product management. Manage your scope. Beyond Scrum. http://blog.3back.com/musing/5-common-sense-guidelines-for-scrum/. Use common sense If it ain’t broke, don ’ t fix it Scrum doesn’t have all the answers Don’t expect any miracles Conflict is not a bad thing

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Agile product management

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  1. Agile product management Manage your scope

  2. Beyond Scrum http://blog.3back.com/musing/5-common-sense-guidelines-for-scrum/ Use common sense • If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it • Scrum doesn’t have all the answers • Don’t expect any miracles • Conflict is not a bad thing • Practice makes perfect

  3. Beyond Scrum Embrace change, it is the only constant

  4. Beyond Scrum The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Build trust in your teammates partners

  5. Beyond Scrum Invest in the team

  6. Beyond Scrum Challenge the team

  7. Agile Product Management

  8. Agile product management

  9. Agile product management The vision and roadmap Ceremony to work through priorities with all stakeholders Execute! ROI MMF Architecture Sizing Get a backlog! The PQD product development process

  10. Agile product management • High level sizing (team sprints) • Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF) vs. Nice to Have • Degree of customer feedback required • Competitive information • Sales cycle information (is this required for a sale or program?) Epics • A lightweight business case created for features, functionality, and content created by Product Management. Includes information (when applicable) on: • Market segment • Use case • Persona (e.g., InfoPro, End User) • Specific customer requests • Expected revenue - Usage & Pricing requirements

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  13. Results

  14. Results Separated Dialog from Academic Bug fixing dropped below 20% Resolved all major architecture challenges Reduced development costs by 3x!!! Alert success rate to 99.9% Quality no longer a customer complaint Regained trust through transparent communication and results What we learned from Datastar Realization that academic platform foundation does not meet corporate market needs 70% of development capacity bug fixing Major architectural challenges Rising outsourcing costs Alerts not working Poor quality Eroding trust

  15. Results And most importantly, we delivered a migration ready platform and completed migration in 2013

  16. Takeaways

  17. Takeaways Scrum is not a silver bullet Use common sense to customize scrum to your team and culture Understand the business problems and context through “Epics” Empower your teams Optimize for the whole, rather than as individuals or sub teams Celebrate successes

  18. Takeaways But remember…

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