An invitation to Agile Product Management
Wonderland
Down the rabbit hole!
Agile product manager Envision a product Deliver value Improve process
Which way I go from here?
Envision a product
Advice from a caterpillar
Big ideas
Never been done Customers smile Engineers curse Nobody except CTO thinks
possible Word of mouth
Minimum viable product
Time to market Reduce waste Mediocrity curse
Viability ‡ Delightful
Completeness UI design Quality
Completeness
UI design
Quality
Envisioning anti patterns
Features soup
• If you don't agree will continue to develop requirements until
you… give up!
Analysis paralysis
Too many requirements
• Just to index the requirements required a pivot table
No real customers
Deliver value
The pool of tears
Don’t waste money!
Maximize ROI
A cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat!
Innovation rate
Split time
Architectural runway
In practice
Create opportunities Visibility, count everything Transparency, flag everything Small time boxes for improvement
Usage index
Are your features used ?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Number of uses per period
% o
f use
rs
On product index
Efficient vs. Effective
Cost of context switch
1 2 3 4 50
102030405060708090
100
Chart Title
Work timeWaste
Number of simultaneous projects
Perc
ent
Improve process
What is a caucus race?
Your allies
Backlog Stories Release plan
Definition of Ready
Backlog DEEP Sprint goal set Capacity known Velocity forecasted
Definition of Done
Create technical documentation Unit testing Refactor design Bug fixing Create test cases System testing Regression testing Non-functional testing Automation testing
A mad tea party
Time flies
Suppose it were nine o'clock, just time to begin lessons: whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!
Agile release train If fixed deadline, flexible
requirements or vice-versa
In practice
Before the end…
Thank you!