Showing posts with label daily stand-up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daily stand-up. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Skip the Daily Stand-Up
I just got back in from vacation, and began catching up on my e-mail and reading. The Cranky Product Manager wrote a great post, describing why it’s not practical for the Product Manager to participate in every Agile meeting ever held! The Cranky Product Manager hit this one on the head – if we are in the building, who will figure out what to do next? In an Agile world, it’s easy for Product Managers to get sucked into the development cloud. To succeed, we have to be aware of that tendency, and fight it…or we will quickly lose touch with the market that we’re supposed to be serving!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Product Management and Development: Friends with Benefits
Saeed Khan published an interesting post yesterday (http://onproductmanagement.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/agiledev_and_pm/ ). I enjoyed his perspectives, especially the comparison to Sales. It’s so true – when Sales adopts a new methodology, they do it independently, and we’re not expected to be involved. Why is it, then, that we get sucked into Development when they adopt a new approach? Better to be “friends with benefits” than to be constant companions!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Death by Daily Stand-Up - a Chaotic Transition to Agile
When your development team goes agile, what happens to Product Management?
Too often, I talk with Product Managers who are now sucked into the internal world of development. They are taking part in daily stand-ups, helping to translate market requirements into feature sets and even sprints.
I am all for improvements in development methods, and I have seen agile work really well. I can also understand how development teams would prefer to have the Product Manager in the room – after all, we are the ones who know the market that Development’s trying to please. So, it’s not too hard to see how Product Managers end up spending every day interfacing with Development.
At what cost?
If the Product Manager is in the daily stand-up – if they’re learning enough about the technology to help plan the contents of sprints, if they’re participating faithfully in daily decisions – who is going to figure out what comes next?
If we expect Product Managers to focus internally, aren’t we dictating the eventual end of our companies? If Product Managers are in the building, who’s out finding the next big opportunity? The market’s going to change – how will we know what it needs next?
Too often, I talk with Product Managers who are now sucked into the internal world of development. They are taking part in daily stand-ups, helping to translate market requirements into feature sets and even sprints.
I am all for improvements in development methods, and I have seen agile work really well. I can also understand how development teams would prefer to have the Product Manager in the room – after all, we are the ones who know the market that Development’s trying to please. So, it’s not too hard to see how Product Managers end up spending every day interfacing with Development.
At what cost?
If the Product Manager is in the daily stand-up – if they’re learning enough about the technology to help plan the contents of sprints, if they’re participating faithfully in daily decisions – who is going to figure out what comes next?
If we expect Product Managers to focus internally, aren’t we dictating the eventual end of our companies? If Product Managers are in the building, who’s out finding the next big opportunity? The market’s going to change – how will we know what it needs next?
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