We live in a world of finite resources and choosing to spend them wisely is an essential ingredient of your journey to the summit. Feature prioritization is one of the most crucial aspects of product development. Avoiding this critical activity can put you at a disadvantage. You must start with...

A product roadmap is a critical tool for prioritizing, collaborating on, and planning out your product features. It is a blueprint for how a product or solution will evolve over time. Product managers use roadmaps to outline future product functionality and when new features will be released. It str...

In our previous blog, we discussed a practical approach to developing an Agile technical design. Agile design acknowledges that a project is going to be flexible and evolving, and puts processes in place that allow this flexibility.  The use of standardized design tools improves design efficiency a...

  In an earlier blog, we explored some best practices for documenting Agile Product Requirements. Product requirements are the common language between business and engineering that play a vital role because they are the first step in the product development process – where value creation is highe...

Packaged Software implementations are major undertakings that transform your organization in a significant way.  Whether you are implementing a CRM system (such as Salesforce.com) or an insurance industry core business system (such as Guidewire), as an organization you probably have been on this jo...

    In an earlier blog, Death By a Thousand Cuts, we discussed the problems associated with using an unstructured approach for documenting product requirements and design. Unfortunately a lot of Agile teams are still following these unstructured approaches using Word and Excel documents fo...

Agile software development techniques are being increasingly adopted by organizations. Agile usage continues to grow and achieve more universal acceptance. The logical evolution has been to apply Agile methodology to larger projects and organizations.  However, this evolution is fraught with challe...

We at DreamCatcher Software read with great interest the 2016 State of Scrum Report, just published by The Scrum Alliance. The report was based on a survey of more than 2,000 respondents from its membership encompassing 76 countries, primarily in North America, Europe and Asia. We cite four major fi...