Role of the Product Manager

I’ve been blogging off and on the “agile product manager vs. agile product owner” roles over the last few months. (These are categorized under Product owner/Product Manager) In one post (Responsibilities of the Agile Product Owner vs. Enterprise Product Manager) we noted that within the enterprise, it’s not always appropriate nor feasible to have [...]

Ideal Training for Enterprise-Scale Agility?

Pete Behrens (www.trailridgeconsulting.com) and I were formulating a training strategy for a significant enterprise that is contemplating an “all in” (immediate and across the entire company) enterprise scale transformation approach. Based on my experiences at BMC Software and his experiences at Salesforce.com, as well as some of our larger, ongoing clients, we had a chance [...]

Responsibilities of Agile Product Owner vs Enterprise Product Manager

Building on my own experiences as well as Jennifer Fawcett’s whitepaper (agileproductowner.com) and the webinar from Catherine Connor and Rally, there are indeed some some substantial changes in the role of Product Manager in a before and after agile enterprise, as the table below shows.

As we understand these differences, we start to see a significant [...]