Product Management

The product development lifecycle is complex, but in order for it to run like a well oiled machine there needs to be solid product management at the heart.

The below video explains Agile Product Ownership incredibly well and covers:

• Velocity, delivery forecasting and burn up chart
• Product vision
• Prioritisation – value and effort
• Stakeholder management
• PBIs (Product Backlog Items) – user stories and unit tests
• WIP limit
• Product iterations
• Agile
• Communication and collaboration
• Context switching
• Problem solving
• Scrum
• Backlog grooming
• Risk
• Prototyping
• Tech debt
• Scaling agile

A typical Product Manager R&R would also be:

• Market analysis
• Competitor analysis
• Customer analysis
• Trends
• Product line strategy
• Product Vision
• Product Roadmap
• Backlog prioritisation
• Epic / feature scoping
• Epic breakdown to user stories
• Requirement workshops and documenting them
• User story definition
• Detailed acceptance criteria
• Backlog grooming
• Sprint planning
• Acceptance of user stories
• Retrospectives
• Daily stand-up

More info here on how to scale product when the time is right.