This blog posts explores four useful factors to prioritize the product backlog: value; risk and uncertainty; releasability; and dependencies.

Learn when it is time to break up your product backlog.

Discover how much work is necessary in Scrum to envision the product and start the first sprint.

Find out why product owners should care about software quality and what they can do to help get it right.

Discover the desirable characteristics of a product owner.

This blog post explores the differences between working as a product manager and playing the product owner role.

This blog post discusses the role of business analysts on Scrum projects.

Find out what agile product management is all about and how it differs from traditional approaches! This post summarizes the key differences between old-school and agile product management.

Like a garden growing wild when left unattended for too long, the product backlog becomes unwieldy when it’s neglected. This blog post covers the essential grooming steps to ensure that your product backlog contains the right items and is ready for the next sprint planning meeting.

The product backlog is intended to be a beautifully simple tool. But real-world product backlogs are all too often too long and too detailed making them difficult to use. This blog post explains how you can avoid this common trap by ensuring that your product backlog is DEEP: Detailed appropriately, estimated, emergent, and prioritized.

Applying the product owner role is challenging, and the path to effective product ownership is littered with pitfalls and traps. This post will help you avoid some of the most common product owner mistakes.

This post discusses scaling the product owner role and describes the chief product owner – the product owner in charge of a complex product developed by a large Scrum project.

The product owner role in Scrum attracts a lot of interest and controversy. This post attempts to demystify this important role.
