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Questions about backlog refinement for internal products
My answers to some questions that came up during my backlog refinement presentation at the PMBA conference in Chicago.
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Filters not buckets: How to prioritize your internal products
Questions sparked by my presentation about prioritization at Agile + DevOpsDays Des Moines 2025
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If you’re not talking about money, execs aren’t listening
When you work on a product, even (perhaps especially) internal ones, you need to tie it to your organization’s finances.
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What I heard about AI and prototyping at INDUSTRY 2025
One implied theme at INDUSTRY 2025 was if you’re tempted to use AI to generate user stories, consider prototyping instead.
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How should you document testing issues?
It's equally important to focus on building the right thing and building the right thing right. How you incorporate testing into the product development…
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An Overview of Sense and Respond
Sense & Respond explains what organizations should hope to get out of doing agile, digital and product transformations without beating you over the head…
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How to be your boss's “get back” coach
Sometimes you need to make your life difficult in the short term by making your boss's life easier in the long term.
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