Innovation is a Team Sport You’re a large company with unique challenges. You’re operating internationally, across a large portfolio of products and teams that have grown and changed over time, and tackling a huge range… Janna Bastow November 9, 2021 10 minute read
Planning for Success - How to Master Release Planning Release planning can be frustrating, because it’s essentially an attempt to structure something that’s complex and unpredictable. Sure, release planning provides an execution and rollout structure for the product roadmap.… Kirsty Kearney Greig November 4, 2021 7 minute read
The 8 Product Manager Skills You Need to Supercharge Your Career A product manager wears a lot of hats. The PM is a jack-of-all-trades, and they end up managing other people about as much as they do a product. What does… Janna Bastow October 27, 2021 10 minute read
Product Roadmap Presentation - How Detailed Do You Go? I was on a call with a customer the other week and they asked how big and how detailed they should make their roadmap presentation. How much information did I… Liz Love October 22, 2021 2 minute read
The rest of your company is experimentation driven, you should be too Product people often struggle to overcome resistance from execs when they try to move away from a timeline roadmap. They’re always expected to give a level of certainty about what… Janna Bastow October 20, 2021 4 minute read
Remember These 5 Quick Wins for Writing User Stories Whether you’ve been writing user stories for years or are new to the game, these five tips will help your team work smarter and build better. Liz Love October 19, 2021 6 minute read
Enhancing the Scrum Master’s Role in Today’s Product Management Just like technology itself, the roles within tech companies are always evolving. This is especially true for the Scrum Master, traditionally a leader among software development teams that use the… Janna Bastow October 8, 2021 6 minute read
Bugs and Debt in the Product Flow Bugs are a fact of every product’s life. You have to allot a certain amount of time to paying down tech debt, or else it becomes way too hairy and… Janna Bastow October 5, 2021 7 minute read
Stop your Innovation Drain! Too many teams suffer from what I call an Innovation Drain. It’s what happens when people give up on their product function, and keep their potentially innovative ideas to themselves.… Janna Bastow September 22, 2021 8 minute read
