A Good Beginning is Half The Battle A well-defined product backlog improves collaborative process of a team A product backlogs emerges in many perspectives. Sometimes it represents customer needs to be fulfilled, or it contains technical or non-technical descriptions for internal teams. Of course, defects and environment configurations are included in it as well. …

Product Vision as A Compass “I cannot see any vision to be created during the product journey”, I said, before quitting the job. The designer sitting in front of me just nodded without further talk. Each time when we were talking about the features to be crafted, we lacked of reviewing product visions regularly. We…

Everything Would Change Every quarter, we are required to write down our KPI as a criteria to evaluate our performance in the following months. Usually I do not take it seriously because we know the only thing that doesn’t change is change. …

A Fleeting Idea Largely influenced by the current economic recession as well as the crypto-market’s going down, the trading volume of our exchange has significantly reduced. Therefore, we adapted our product target to present condition; started optimizing surrounding requirements thereafter, waiting for the next bull market to come. …

Do Less on Timing The Market In the Scrum Guide, we are trained to deliver potentially-releasable products early and frequently to collect user feedbacks; adapt ourselves during the process. However, in real scenarios, many organizations tend to do long-term survey to predict whether their ideas are valuable and decide to invest resources on them. The reason…

Product Vision as Great Story I just finished holding my first sprint planning 2 weeks ago. And I followed the tips on the book to profile the status quo of the current products, which was important but often ignored. In the Scrum guide, it indicates a product owner should be preparing product backlogs, ordering requirements…

A Series of Reflections As I keep reading the book, I feel a successful product owner actually needs assistance from his Scrum team as well as sponsorship at the right level, or he might be frustrated with building relationship with development teams and stakeholders. And then products fail as predicted. I primarily work more…

Product Owner is An Important Role As a Scrum Master, I’ve aided several project managers to improve working processes by integrating the Scrum framework. As per my experience, not all Scrum teams I had worked with could take agile methodologies into their daily work, and I found a role: Product Owner, matters. And the feeling got…

Agile Mindset Transformation These days I was reading a classic book: Agile Product Management with Scrum, which was published by a well-known product manager in Silicon Valley, Roman Pichler. As a Scrum Master, I knew in the Scrum Guide it merely indicated some fundamental principles instead of practices to abide by. …