Tools and Resources
Dependency Management
Dependency management is the process of tracking and minimizing disruptions between dependencies. Effective dependency management can reduce risks and increase...
Agile & Development
Agile & Product Development
Product Launch Timeline
Product launch timelines visually represent the project plan to successfully release new products. The goal of the timeline is to...
Product Development Cycle
What Is the Product Development Cycle? The product development cycle is the process of taking a product from an idea...
PDCA Cycle
What Is the PDCA Cycle? The PDCA cycle is a project management framework that businesses can use to implement incremental...
Roadmap Revolution
What is the Roadmap Revolution? A roadmap revolution is a complete re-evaluation of a product roadmap, commonly conducted at the...
Pair Programming
What Is Pair Programming? Pair programming is a practice in agile software development where two programmers share a workstation. This...
Release Management
What Is Release Management? Release management is one of those modern business terms that has several meanings. For IT departments,...
Working Backwards (the Amazon Method)
The Amazon working backward method is a product development approach that starts with the team imagining the product is ready...
Scrumban
What Is Scrumban? Scrumban is a project management framework that combines important features of two popular agile methodologies: Scrum and...
Agile Product Owner
What is an Agile Product Owner? In an agile organization, the product owner is responsible for prioritizing and overseeing the...
Product Development Manager
What is a Product Development Manager? A Product Development Manager (PDM)—often a software engineer, QA tester, or UX designer—is responsible...
LeSS (Large Scale Scrum)
Large scale Scrum (LeSS) is a scaled-up version of the traditional, one-team Scrum. LeSS uses many principles of the Scrum...
Fibonacci Agile Estimation
Fibonacci agile estimation refers to using this sequence as the scoring scale when estimating the effort of agile development tasks.
Shipyard Engine
What is a Shipyard Engine? A shipyard engine describes a product team’s process to keep its organization informed about the...
Shape Up Method
What is the Shape Up Method? The Shape Up Method describes the specific processes used by product development teams to...
Tribe Model Management
What is Tribe Model Management? Tribe model management is part of an agile scaling strategy first used to help Spotify’s...
Product Strategy
Business Transformation
What is Business Transformation? Business transformation is an umbrella term for making fundamental changes in how a business or organization...
Product Development Process
What Is the Product Development Process? The product development process encompasses all steps needed to take a product from concept...
Enterprise Architecture Planning
What is Enterprise Architecture? Enterprise architecture is a strategic and comprehensive blueprint for how IT infrastructure will be used across...
Business Agility
What is Business Agility? Business agility applies the principles of agile development to the entire organization. This allows companies to...
Enterprise Architecture Roadmap
What is an Enterprise Architecture Roadmap? An enterprise architecture roadmap is a strategic blueprint that communicates how a company’s IT...
Agile Transformation
Agile transformation is the process of transitioning an entire organization to a nimble, reactive approach based on agile principles. Understanding...
Dual-Track Agile
Dual-track agile is where the cross-functional product team breaks its daily development work into two tracks: discovery and delivery.
eXtreme Programming (XP)
What is eXtreme Programming? eXtreme Programming (XP) is an agile framework that emphasizes both the broader philosophy of agile—to produce...