by Stefan Wolpers | Nov 20, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Product backlog, Product discovery, Product management, Product roadmap, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Escaping the Feature Factory — Refocussing From Output to Outcome The feature factory fate is not inevitable; there is hope to avoid becoming a mere cog in the machinery. Learn how! In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap,...
by Stefan Wolpers | Oct 23, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Lean and Product, Product backlog, Product discovery, product goal, Product management, Product Manager, Product Owner
TL, DR: Saying No Without Burning Bridges Are you navigating the delicate art of saying No as a Product Owner or product manager? Actually, it’s more of a strategic ‘yes’ to higher priorities, turning down lower-level requests without shutting down communication. This...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 24, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Lean and Product, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Product discovery, Product management, scrum team, Tools
TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. Scrum teams can equally make things no one is interested in using at all. The critical artifact to...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jan 22, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, hands-on agile meetup, Product discovery, Product management, Video, Videos
TL; DR: Evidence-guided Product Discovery Using Itamar Gilad’s Confidence Meter How much product discovery is enough? Figuring out what is worth building often feels valuable in and of itself. The problem is that becoming stuck in an endless discovery cycle neither...
by Stefan Wolpers | Nov 21, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Product discovery, Product Increment, Product Owner
TL;DR: Value Creation in Scrum As a tactical framework, Scrum is good at delivering Increments into customers’ hands. As we work in iterations, we probably do that several times per month, mitigating risk by closing feedback loops. Nevertheless, there is a potentially...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jan 31, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Hands-on Agile community, hands-on agile meetup, Product discovery, Product management, Webinars, Workshops
TL; DR: The Zones of Value Framework w/ Valerio Zanini & Zeina Zeitouni During this workshop, Valerio Zanini and Zeina Zeitouni explored the Zones of Value Framework that Agile and Product teams can use to build better products. We recorded this video at the 31st...
