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Advanced Scrum Product Ownership — Riding Dinosaurs

By |2022-12-14T17:21:04-05:00July 2, 2020|Lean Startup, Product Ownership, Scrum|

What does Scrum Product Ownership have to do with Dinosaurs?We typically say that Scrum Masters get to herd cats. But Scrum Product Owners actually need to learn how to ride a Dinosaur! With the click-bate established, what does that even mean?I’ve been using a visualization that people find useful for understanding the relationship between the various Lean/Agile requirement containers. Some people call the full model a dinosaur. Others are reminded of the snake who ate an elephant from “The Little [...]

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Lean Startup Blues

By |2013-10-29T22:39:26-04:00October 29, 2013|kanban, Lean Startup|

Yesterday I had an interesting session with a company who's been a big believer in Lean Startup and the MVP concept but have lately reduced the amount of MVP-driven product development dramatically. Not because there is less uncertainty to iterate through but due to something we can call the "Lean Startup Blues" - the lack of faith that the MVP process works at scale over the long term. The main challenge is that building MVPs is not enough. Some organizations [...]

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Explaining MVPs, MVFs, MMFs via the Lean/Agile Requirements Dinosaur

By |2012-12-30T21:53:46-05:00December 30, 2012|Agile, Lean Startup, Product Ownership|

In the last few weeks I've been using a new visualization that people find useful for understanding the relationship between the various Lean/Agile requirement containers. Some people call the full model a dinosaur. Others are reminded of the snake who ate an elephant from "The Little Prince". (I'm sure there is a good connection to elephant carpaccio somewhere in here ...)     The first step is to understand that for a new product there is a unique value proposition [...]

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Impressions from Lean Systems and Software Conference 2012 Boston

By |2012-05-17T16:42:21-04:00May 17, 2012|Blog, Events, kanban, Lean Startup|

As I prepare to check out from the Boston Seaport Hotel which was the venue of this year's LSSC conference (and did a magnificent job hosting us!), here are my highlights/impressions of the conference. The buzzword of the conference seems to have been "Lean Startup". It permeated into many talks (including mine) in two main aspects - One was the classic product/customer-focused Lean Startup as an alternative narrative to Lean/Agile. The other was taking the ideas of fast cycles of [...]

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So what is Lean Startup for Change – LS4CHG

By |2012-05-16T06:21:59-04:00May 16, 2012|Change Management, Lean Startup, Lean Startup for Change|

Lets try to summarize real quick what we came up with in a short lean coffee session about this today in LSSC12. Lean Startup for Change is applying the concepts of Lean Startup to Change programs. It comes real handy when you have a complex environment where you don't know exactly what will work for the organization context (market) and you want to test it rigorously until you come up with an approach that can stick/grow effectively in a way [...]

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Where is the “Customer Development” aspect of the Lean Startup for Change approach?

By |2012-04-11T22:39:32-04:00April 11, 2012|Change Management, kanban, Lean Startup|

I recently wrote about finding the Minimum Viable Change and have been thinking about it some more, especially while working on my presentation for upcoming Scrum Gathering Atlanta and Lean Systems and Software Conference in Boston. While trying to think what I'm going to say about Minimum Viable Change (MVC) I began to think about how to map the MVC to Minimum Viable Product, finding Product Market Fit and the Customer Development Process. In my mind so far, as well as [...]

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Kanban Method – Finding the Minimally Viable Change

By |2012-03-09T07:50:06-05:00March 9, 2012|Change Management, kanban, Lean Startup|

A perfect storm is brewing: Jeff Anderson has been talking about the connection between Kanban and LeanStartup A discussion about Kanban Training Materials with Mike Burrows has nudged me to give more emphasis to the foundational principles and core practices. I've been pitching a lot of Lean Startup stuff myself to Product Owners and clients in general I've been thinking about how to use Lean Startup Change Measure Learn cycles in our approach to change at AgileSparks (and started to [...]

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