Product Owner eli tuoteomistaja on ketterissä tuotekehitystiimeissä rooli, jonka vastuulla on edustaa asiakkaan ja stakeholdereiden ääntä tiimille ja priorisoida tiimin tekemistä. Ideana on se, että yksi henkilö kerää tietoa monista eri lähteistä ja keskustelee säännöllisesti monien ihmisten kanssa, jotta voi sitten tehdä päätöksiä siitä mikä on tärkeää: mitä tehdään ja mitä ei. Lisäksi Product Owner vastaa siitä, että tiimillä on aina valmiina aloitettavaksi hyvin määriteltyä ja tärkeää tekemistä.
Cultural Empathy Requires You to Understand or Accept the Other Person
“It is important to realize that understanding an action is not the same as accepting it.” This quote by Arman Alizad made me think about different cultures and how to successfully work with different people. Read this blog to find out more!
SAFe+JIRA = the Perfect Pair for Agile Development and Enterprise Resource Planning?
SAFe and JIRA is the biggest love story of the centrury! In our blog we will tell you, why this pair goes so perfectly together. Read it and join us for the wedding planning!
Product Owner – a Side Job or Full-time Work?
It often feels like the importance of product ownership is not entirely understood. However, the Product Owner is a really important role for any product development, and it should be payed more attention to. In this blog we will tell you, why product ownership is worth investing in.
You Cannot Motivate Anyone – Motivation Comes From Within!
Numerous studies have shown that employees who are motivated have a very positive impact on the organization’s results and operations. The equation is simple: the more committed the employees are, the better the company performs. So, how can we motivate people to do their best?
Don’t Outsource Service Design – Learn It!
Customer experience is so important that you should not assign it to a third party. A functional or ready product alone is not enough. You need a positive customer experience because the decision on the excellence of the product or service is made by the user or customer. In order for the customer’s experience to be as consistent with the company’s goals as possible, you need service design.
Why Do We Need Service Design? – The 5 Benefits.
Service design looks at the service comprehensively from the customer’s perspective.
Concepts like customer experience, customer understanding, customer orientation, service promise and value proposition are basic concepts of service design, without forgetting the business resources. Read more in our blog!
Agile Product Development Requires Changing Your Way of Thinking
Trying to become an agile product development organization? Go ahead. Pictures are glued, patched up with plaster and fixed with chewing gum. But you cannot glue, patch or fix a change. That is why no product development process, much less an organization, can become agile or able to learn just by deciding it.
Product Owner – the Product Manager’s Tenant or Owner of the Product?
In many organizations, the responsibilities of Product Manager and Product Owner are happily overlapping. When responsibilities are similar, there is a risk that tasks become so unclear that something essential remains to be done.
The Concept of Project Is the Greatest Bluff of the 20th Century
One ultimatum of agile methods is to make projects unnecessary. But what does this mean? Will we not try to finish anything anymore? Or do we not need a plan for work anymore? If successful, the agile method is better in both respects: it helps us achieve more and plan more efficiently.
Business Case Gets Lean
While agile methods are already being deployed in product development, the majority of
mid-sized and large companies still use the traditional waterfall model in the development of
their business operations.
Shared Coffee Break at Work is Like an Oasis in the Desert
Team spirit gets a huge lift just by taking some coffee breaks with the team. A successful working environment requires chatting and small talk, since it improves trust and makes working much more efficient.