The mythical “Full Stack” Product Manager…
The ‘Full Stack’ term has recently started to appear in buzzword-heavy Job descriptions for Product Managers. Recruiter Marketeers love a good buzzword and ‘full stack’ is just such a thing: it means nothing, so it can be used everywhere and for whatever definition you wish. But is ‘full stack’ useful, or even advisa
The A, E, I, O, U of agile innovation
Following on from an earlier post (https://ronhealy.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/go-far-avoid-the-fogs/), I have developed a memory tool as an easy way to remember the agile approach to iterative innovation. It is a simple-to-understand set of activities that should be suitable for all agile innovation – no matter how big or s
The Dark Art of Agile Innovation
...there is a ‘darker’ side to Agile Innovation - let’s call it the "Dark Art" of Agile Innovation [...] the soft skills and intuition that come with experience and a creative, imaginative, and adventurous mindset
Podcast interview on “The Business of A.I.”
I was very pleased (and a little surprised, if I’m honest!) to be asked to feature on “The Business of A.I.” Podcast. The interview with Luca Marchesotti of Sparkd AI was a little bit nervy because it was unscripted and the questions were not supplied in advance. Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation [&he
Tool to auto-generate User Stories with minimal typing and even less repetition…
...auto-generating User Stories to allow direct importing into Jira and automatic linking to Epics. Downloadable template to get started. Ideal for stakeholder engagement when identifying features and to facilitate Dev & QA stakeholders' decomposition of features.
Even my wardrobe is Agile…
Agile is always supposed to be geared towards answering that simple question: what is the next most valuable thing we could deliver? By that definition, even my wardrobe is Agile.
The invisible cost of double jobbing for shared resources in Agile
The stated ‘best practise’ of Scrum-flavoured Agile software development (and therefore the target state of many transitioning environments) is a self-organising, cross-functional collection of individual resources capable of delivering whatever they agree to deliver, within a time window and within the resources (including
You can go FAR if you avoid the FOGS
“One of the most recent - and perhaps the most outwardly unsuitable - area where Agile principles and techniques are being applied is the area of Product Innovation. Kanban, Lean and JIT processes are ideally suited to predictable, repeatable processes like Manufacturing. Product innovation is anything but predictable or repea
The Complexities in our Digital Identity
In a recent Documentary on RTÉ TV (the Irish national broadcaster) about Annacarty Barracks and its central role in the Irish path to freedom & independence, Mick Dromm (at least, I think that was his name!), who was one of the primary Archaeologists on the Project, said: “As a nation, as a people, we are […]
Agile: it’s not for the Fragile…
Over the last 10+ years as a Business Analyst, Product Owner & Product Manager in a wide variety of teams, environments, sectors & projects – and, indeed, as a Customer overseeing my own Product development (see flowdaq if you’re interested in that) – it has become clear that Agile philosophies, concept
