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...