http://www.thehungryant.com Thoughts on product development in an agile environment Mon, 16 May 2011 19:57:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was with Mind Candy yesterday at the SiliconMilkRoundabout looking for some new talent :-) It was a great day and it was really exciting to see so many London startups in one space. I haven't seen anything like it in London before. What really pleased me was that all the ... http://www.thehungryant.com/2011/05/thoughts-on-the-silicon-milk-roundabout/ As a product manager you are with a product throughout its whole lifetime. One of things to be mindful of are the different mental phase transitions that you must go through to ensure that your product's first slice gets out of the door. The last 10%  is a key point where ... http://www.thehungryant.com/2011/05/shipping-a-product-the-last-10-percent/ A lot of companies and teams say they are doing agile or scrum and it turns out it is scrumbut (Scrum without the core processes that make it work). In my experience the biggest reason for ScrumBut is that the company as a whole hasn't bought into the cadence that ... http://www.thehungryant.com/2010/09/scrumbut-the-biggest-reason-is-company-not-buying-in/ I have decided to work for a great company called MindCandy that make www.moshimonsters.com in London as a Technical Product Manager. Sardinia has been great for many many things, but I couldn't refuse the chance to work there. Everything changes as they say. http://www.thehungryant.com/2010/02/moving-to-mindcandy/ Gamasutra - Features - Beyond Scrum: Lean and Kanban for Game Developers Looks at Software kanban for the games ... http://www.thehungryant.com/2009/11/links-for-2009-11-17/ One aspect of product development that is really important is to find partners or clients that are willing to pay for your final product. Without this level of feedback it is difficult to get a sense of whether you are going in the right direction. Another factor that is extremely ... http://www.thehungryant.com/2009/11/find-clients-or-partners-early-in-the-process/ One of the big changes that has happened since I started my new role is the addition of interaction designers (3 in fact!!) into the company. It was interesting trying to explain to the business what they actually do, but they thankfully took my word for it. It turns out ... http://www.thehungryant.com/2009/09/interaction-designers-the-product-managers-best-friend/ I learnt a lesson the other day. I am involved in 3 projects at the moment, 2 of which we started from scratch and were started with product opportunity assessments. The third project had already been running when I joined. I mistakenly made an assumption that the questions in the ... http://www.thehungryant.com/2009/09/the-point-of-view-of-the-product-manager/ I just finished building a flash website for a very talented Sardinian photographer friend of mine. Check it out at www.antoniosaba.com and let me know what you think. http://www.thehungryant.com/2009/07/antonio-saba-photography/ We are currently developing a new product and are busy analysing all the data we have gathered from interviews and statistical data to create our personas. My aim as a product owner (in my agile hat) is to arrive at a product backlog that has user stories that are fine grained ... http://www.thehungryant.com/2009/07/epics-and-storyboards/