In a previous blog post, I talked about different categories of product owners. You can check it out here. But here’s a summary: Scribe — doesn’t add any value, just takes orders. Proxy — who maybe doesn’t just take the orders, maybe adds some value in terms of assessing whether…

Where is your product in its lifecycle? AND how that could overlap with the complexity of the work that you’re dealing with? How old is your product?

Isn’t Kanban just about outputs? Isn’t Kanban missing a trick with value and organizational capability? First of all, I want to give you a little bit of context because there’s a wonderful framework called evidence-based management from scrum.org and it has two aspects. The first aspect I won’t go into…

Kanban is a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, pull-based system. It’s suited to complex problems because it helps deal with uncertainty, a central feature of complex professional knowledge work. …

In the Kanban Guide, we define Kanban. We bring Kanban down to the minimal aspects, and we hope you find that helpful. In doing so, we made a lot of things optional. One of the things that is optional in the definition of workflow is a backlog. …

Why understanding the definition of workflow is important In my opinion, the section on the definition of workflow in the Kanban Guide is probably the most important section. If you don’t understand your definition of workflow, many other things don’t work that well in the Kanban Guide as a result. …

First of all, what is meant by release planning? (An old-fashioned term, but we’re still stuck with it). What is “release planning”?

What are cycle time percentiles? But first… what is cycle time? What are cycle times?

Disclaimer I welcome product managers and product leaders to the session in my product owner classes. However, there are differences between product owners, product leaders, and product managers. When people come to my class, I’m not teaching them about product management or product leadership. …