People, Plans & Common Sense

Series · 4 notes

The Practical Product Owner

Briefs, backlogs, estimation, handover.

What Product Owners need on the job, not in a certification. Onboarding, discovery, prioritisation, and the small disciplines that keep developers unblocked.

  1. 01
    Product Ownership in the Real World28 Oct 20256 min

    Estimation Is Not Guessing. It Is Structured Discovery.

    Estimates are the cheapest tool you have for finding the questions you have not asked yet.

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  2. 02
    Product Ownership in the Real World21 Oct 20256 min

    Your Backlog Is Not a Plan. It Is a Pile of Unmade Decisions.

    Most backlogs are storage. A plan is the small subset of work you have actually committed to delivering, in order, against a goal.

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  3. 03
    Product Ownership in the Real World16 Sept 20255 min

    The Junior Product Owner Problem: Responsibility Without Operating Tools.

    We promote people into Product Ownership and then act surprised when they cannot run a backlog they were never taught to operate.

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  4. 04
    Business Analysis Without Theatre2 Sept 20255 min

    A Good Brief Is Not Documentation. It Is Risk Reduction.

    Briefs are not for the archive. They are for the moment a developer is about to make an expensive assumption.

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