Tag: Agile
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“User Story Mapping” (Book Review)
Three years ago I wrote about Jeff Patton’s “Story Mapping”. I described this technique as a great tool to help design and develop products (see Fig. 1 below for a good example of a Story Map). Jeff Patton has now written a book about this technique, titled “User Story Mapping”. Patton is a well-known user experience (‘UX’) specialist. He…
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Learning from Roman Pichler about Agile Product Strategy and Roadmap
A few months ago I did a course titled Agile Product Strategy and Roadmap by Roman Pichler. Roman is a London-based Agile & Lean product management expert, who published the book Agile Product Management with Scrum a few years ago. Roman’s course was all about how to best create a product strategy and an effective product…
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User stories revisited, learning from Gojko Adzic
As Gojko Adzic is currently drafting his book titled Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories, I picked up the following useful tips from his latest draft: Main learning point: Even if you think that you know all there is to know about user stories, I still recommend you read “Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve…
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“Agile Retrospectives” (Book Review)
I believe that retrospectives can be incredibly valuable to any team. Taking the time every now and then to take a step back as a team and to reflect. How are you doing as a team? What have you learned from the things you did or released in the past period? Where and how can…
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“Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love” (Book Review)
Marty Cagan is a legend. Period. He’s a legend in the world of product management anyway. I’ve been to a number of events over the past few years where Marty either was a keynote speaker or acted as a ‘judge’, reviewing the product pitches of fellow product people who nervously presented to this ‘product guru’. What…
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