Product Roles

What Should a Head of Product Do?

Becoming a head of product is a career aspiration for many product managers and product owners. But what exactly should…

4 years ago

Product Teams in Scrum

Scrum is a powerful framework that connects the person in charge of the product with the individuals designing and building…

4 years ago

Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters

When you consider who the important partners for product people are, your thoughts might turn to the stakeholders, development team,…

4 years ago

A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Working in product management can be very rewarding. But it can also be very challenging. One of the reasons is…

4 years ago

Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Becoming a head of product and managing a group of product people is a significant career step. In this article,…

5 years ago

Five Product Owner Myths Busted

The product owner is a role which is often misunderstood and frequently misapplied. In this article, I address five common…

5 years ago

Are Feature Teams or Component Teams Right for Your Product?

Whenever you require more than a single development team to progress your product, you have to consider how to organise…

6 years ago

Six Types of “Product” Owners

While the product owner role is not new—it emerged in Scrum in the second half of the 1990ies—there is still…

6 years ago

Product Leadership in Scrum

Product owners can take on too many responsibilities, become too tactical and inward-focused, and lose sight of their main job:…

8 years ago

Be a Balanced Product Leader, Not a Feature Broker or Product Dictator

Being an effective product leader is not easy: It requires embracing people's ideas as well as saying no, being neither…

8 years ago