Waterfall - Mind the Product https://www.mindtheproduct.com/tag/waterfall/ Conferences, training, and content for the world’s largest community of product managers, designers, and developers. Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:48:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-mindtheproduct-favicon-32x32.png Waterfall - Mind the Product https://www.mindtheproduct.com/tag/waterfall/ 32 32 Out of the Fog by Holly Donohue https://www.mindtheproduct.com/out-of-the-fog-by-holly-donohue/ https://www.mindtheproduct.com/out-of-the-fog-by-holly-donohue/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:30:00 +0000 https://www.mindtheproduct.com/?p=18637 In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Holly Donohue, Product Director at Aquila Heywood takes us through their product team’s journey from a waterfall business to one focused on agile. The key points of her talk include: Problems as a waterfall business Making the adjustment to agile Achievements since the transition Watch the video to see Read more »

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Owning Agile by Jeff Patton https://www.mindtheproduct.com/owning-agile-by-jeff-patton/ https://www.mindtheproduct.com/owning-agile-by-jeff-patton/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:54:07 +0000 https://www.mindtheproduct.com/?p=13373 Bashing agile is in vogue at the moment, so when veteran product manager and product design evangelist Jeff Patton suggested it as a topic for his keynote talk at MTP Engage I jumped at it. If the audience was expecting a speech which shot down agile methodologies, they were wrong. Instead Jeff started to deconstruct agile Read more »

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Evolving Product Management in Large Organisations https://www.mindtheproduct.com/evolving-product-management-large-organisations/ https://www.mindtheproduct.com/evolving-product-management-large-organisations/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2016 09:32:33 +0000 https://www.mindtheproduct.com/?p=8474 Will Garner is the Head of Profession for Product Management and the Home Office, where product management & service design are relatively new practices (even though, at it’s core, government is mostly service design!) Building product in government comes with some interesting challenges – on the one hand, you’re building things that matter, but that also Read more »

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Constraints of Digital Delivery and Product Management in Government https://www.mindtheproduct.com/constraints-digital-delivery-product-management-government/ https://www.mindtheproduct.com/constraints-digital-delivery-product-management-government/#respond Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:16:04 +0000 https://www.mindtheproduct.com/?p=8469 India Perry is a Civil Service fast streamer who was recently parachuted into HMRC in a Product Manager role for a multi-million user transactional service. With little digital experience, working within a highly collaborative, very experienced team, India had quite a learning experience & shares some of the things she learned along the way. Product Read more »

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From Waterfall to Agile: A Product Manager Transition https://www.mindtheproduct.com/waterfall-agile-product-manager-transition/ https://www.mindtheproduct.com/waterfall-agile-product-manager-transition/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:22:16 +0000 https://www.mindtheproduct.com/?p=7438 A few weeks back, Martin Eriksson reviewed the history of Product Management and explained how the discipline was born in the FMCG manufacturing industry. At the time, the process for creating products was similar to the Waterfall project management model we’re familiar with because the development, testing, production and market distribution of physical goods is expensive and Read more »

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Better User Stories, Come Hell or High Waterfall https://www.mindtheproduct.com/better-user-stories-come-hell-or-high-waterfall/ https://www.mindtheproduct.com/better-user-stories-come-hell-or-high-waterfall/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:15:57 +0000 http://mindtheproduct.com/?p=1577 As anyone who makes things for a living will attest, there comes a time perhaps once a day, when a certain question plays upon the lips of everyone on the project. If it’s a particularly trying day, this question will pop up a few times, and if it’s a doozy of a day, it will Read more »

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