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In the world of project management, outputs — what you produce in relation to what you planned to produce and the metrics for measuring how efficiently you did so — have long ruled the definition...

Dojos have gained popularity in recent years, especially as an effective alternative to embedded coaching and classical classroom training for businesses looking to scale agility, product thinking, and DevOps. Dojos foster the use of collaborative...

You may have heard (more than once…) the idea of ‘Project to Product’. Indeed, in recent years this notion is increasingly becoming a buzzword. It’s worth asking, however, what does this idea really mean and...

Project to Product Thinking Part 3 Dating back to the early 2000s the Agile movement drove tremendous advancements in process maturity. We learned to work and deliver in iterations, and focus on progress. But what’s...

Project to Product Thinking Part 2 One of the main promises agility is supposed to deliver on is decreased costs. Most organizations view IT as a cost center and believe that if IT becomes more...

Project to Product Thinking Part 1 Before agile was at the center of the software development world, project management processes dominated. A traditional project consisted of mass research to develop a master plan, assigning projects...

Industry-Leading Firms Aim to Make Life Easier for Product Managers With excitement, today, Aha! and Cprime announce they are entering into a partnership. By combining Cprime\'s expertise in product management consulting with Aha! - the...

“Risk is like fire: If controlled, it will help you; if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you.” -Theodore Roosevelt Risk Management teams who are assigned with identifying risk might go about their task...

If you’ve been using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for a while now, the basics are pretty clear to you. And, while the recently released SAFe 5.0 is a significant update to the framework, most...

Over the last 15 years, I can count 5 days that I looked at the time and thought, \"man, this day is going slow\" (and yes, I keep track). It’s both a good thing and...

The team-level Product Owner arguably has the most difficult job on the product team. Since we are all friends here, let’s just assume she does. She is the connector of the business to tech, design...

Working with Agile teams requires a lot of discipline, and one of the things that can create challenges for the team and degrade performance is related to how the Product Backlog is managed. If you...