Speaking of product managers and product owners, Catherine Connor from Rally Software (and a former compatriot of mine at Rational), recently presented a webinar entitled “How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise”. Here’s the abstract:
As more development teams adopt Agile processes to increase their responsiveness to customer needs, traditional product managers need to change the way they work to keep up with shorter development cycles and feedback loops with their customers. This webinar will propose solutions to the challenges product managers face when moving from traditional development teams to Agile teams.
This is a sensible and practical webinar wherein Catherine also posits that these roles are typically separate in an agile enterprise. The webinar is available on line at:
Scaling Software Agility 