Interview - Steve AdolphSteve Adolph on Product Management, Product Ownership and Business Agility

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

• Episode: Interview - Steve AdolphSteve Adolph on Product Management, Product Ownership and Business Agility
• Website: Engineering Culture by InfoQ
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• Duration: 00:24:21
• Published: 2020-07-01 22:16

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Adolph about the role of the product owner, the rock crusher for user stories and bridging the gap between “the business” and IT Tags: Agile, Agile 2019, Agile conferences, product management, product ownership, business agility, user stories, MVP, MMF Why listen to this podcast: • The role of the product owner often hides the complexity of product management and upstream activities designed to ensure we build the right product • A product backlog should not be like a stack of plates – every item the same size – rather it is like a rock crusher where large items are further away and as they get closer they are broken down into more granular pieces • A good minimum viable product is an experiment designed to answer a specific set of questions about the value and utility of some aspect of a product • Minimum marketable feature set is what is the minimum set of features that we can put out there that people will actually buy and use • The artificial divide between IT and business in many organizations is an inhibitor to generating real value More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2BrWI5p You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2BrWI5p