4S Method
4S Method System, Strategy, Skills, and Scale I've very cleverly dubbed the '4S Method'
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TL; DR: Scrum Product Owner Anti-Patterns
https://berlin-product-people.com/product-owner-anti-patterns/amp/ Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns You can spot many of the Product Owner anti-patterns in the PO’s backyard — the Product Backlog and its refinement: Storage for ideas: The Product Owner uses the Product Backlog as a repository of ideas and requirements. (A large Product Backlog is probably considered a sign of a “good” Scrum team: You are fully transparent, and this is proof of your usefulness to the organization. However, being “busy” does not equal value to customers and the organization. The additional noise created by the sheer number of issues may also cloud the detection of valuable items. Lastly, the Product Backlog size may have a crowding-out effect on stakeholders as they feel overwhelmed. The idea-inflated Product Backlog may impede critical communication with them as a consequence.) Part-time PO: The Product Owner is not working daily on the product backlog. (The Product Backlog needs to repre
Product Courses Available
5 courses to check out for senior PMs Managing your PM career in 2023 & beyond by Shreyas Doshi —just launched and is already beloved by one and all Product Strategy by Reforge —a foundational Reforge course, created by the greats Casey Winters and Fareed Mosavat Product Strategy Workshop by Gibson Biddle —you need to see Gibson in action, especially now that he’s now teaching cohort-based courses on Maven Continuous Interviewing by Teresa Torres —will change the way you build product Product Leadership by Reforge —for budding managers, created by Ravi Mehta 5 PM courses to check out for up-and-coming PMs Product Management Foundations by Reforge —probably the best course out there for new PMs Simulator for Learning Data-Driven Product Management by Sean Ellis and Oleg Ya on GoPractice —I wasn’t aware of this one until recently. It’s not live or cohort-based, but I’m including it anyway because so many people have recommended it...