The “Killer” Feature

The “Killer” Feature

by | Oct 22, 2020 | Product Management Techniques

One feature to rule them all As product managers we are always looking for the next “killer feature” for our product. You know the one, that feature that will become the magical thing that will have customers flooding to subscribe to our product because nobody else...
3 types of product features

3 types of product features

by | Oct 14, 2020 | Product Management Techniques

Our UX/UI journey is accelerating We are currently full steam into the development of the initial User Interface for AgileData.io. The team have done some awesome work on the UX designs for a bunch of the core screens, we have chosen our front end development stack,...
The dangers of a Big Guess Up Front (BGUF)

The dangers of a Big Guess Up Front (BGUF)

by | Aug 3, 2020 | Agile Techniques

The way we used to deliver data and analytics projects was to do what I call the “big guess up front” (BGUF). Documents for Africa We would create massive data and analytics strategy documents, which took months to create and get “signed off” at a senior level in the...
Who should attend Steering Committees?

Who should attend Steering Committees?

by | Jul 10, 2020 | Agile Techniques

Be don’t Do If you are operating under a construct that has a Steering Committee, you are probably not operating as an agile organisation. If you are not an agile organisation your data team will struggle to “be” agile and gain all the value that an agile way of...
Project Managers who have done standups

Project Managers who have done standups

by | Jul 7, 2020 | Agile Techniques

Often you will get somebody join your team as a Scrum Master who has in a previous life been a Project Manager. It seems to be the natural transition, to move from a being Project Manager to being a Scrum Master. In my experience they often make the worse Scrum...