Agile Growing Pains – Making the product owner role work in a fast growing enterprise

From my organization’s Product Owner land, we have many people participating in the individual tasks and requirements of the Agile Product Owner role from an engineering and product management perspective, but, no one person has taken it on, nor has the organization fully figured out how to embed the role. I keep scratching my head [...]

Agile 2010

I’m pleased to once again be on the Agile Conference Review Committee for 2010 for the Agile Product Management track. The Product Manager review committee is kindly lead by Rich Mironov of Enthiosys.
This year, the conference is in Nashville, TN, August 9-13. The deadline for submissions is February 26th. Get your submissions in early!
Visit http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/ [...]

Our Agile Celebration: “The Blessing”

It started with release Beta .0-something. Being the agile development shop that we are, we wanted to ship to our customer as early as possible. Everything had to go: software, firmware, documentation, and early proto-hardware devices. Sunday was the day we were pulling all the artifacts together for a hand-delivered Monday morning flight.
Sunday afternoon. I [...]