product management

Build What You Need, Not What You Expect to Need

Monday Morning #TipOfTheWeek: Build What You Need, Not What You Expect to Need Monday Morning #TipOfTheWeek: One of the things that I learned early on as I started exploring XP (eXtreme Programming) was the XP mantra: build only what you need, not what you expect to need. When building your backlog, focus only on what you […]

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Do you really need a Product Backlog?

Do you really need a Product Backlog? Do you need to have a product backlog? Does it have to conform with statements in the form of User Stories? I get a lot of these questions from all sorts of people that I’ve met or collaborated with throughout my career. Lately, I’ve come to the conclusion

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Getting Close to the Customer is a Team Sport

Getting Close to the Customer is a Team Sport One of the things that agilists say is to get the team as close to the customer as possible, in order to build what they truly need and achieve the outcomes that the business desires. However, in the past 20+ years, all I’ve seen agile teams

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