Cfrln’s Blog: AgilePM

Jira users’ group Thursday September 18

Both Dave Pickering from New Aspects and I will be at the Atlassian Jira users’ group in San Francisco next Thursday September 18, for those of you who’ve been following what we’re doing with Jira to automate product management for an agile dev organization. Looks like a lot of great Bay Area companies are going [...]

P-Camp preso on automating product management with Jira

Here’s the presentation that I gave this past Saturday at P-Camp, the unconference for product managers. If you’ve been following what we’re doing here with automating product management using Jira, there’s detail and screenshots in this presentation that might be interesting.

Product management nirvana

A few months ago I wrote about our effort to automate and open up product planning by implementing a process around distilling product inputs into requirements using Jira in support of an agile/scrum based development model. I’ve rarely had so much response to a post… dozens of product managers at companies large and small wrote [...]

Automating and opening up product planning

The PM and engineering teams are embarked on an interesting experiment here at Splunk. While we’ve always leveraged the support case system to track enhancement requests and automate some of the input end of the product management process, the real meat of product definition has happened pretty much as it does anywhere - via product [...]

Webinar for product managers tomorrow

I’m the speaker tomorrow for a regular series of webinars called “The Product Management View.” I’ll be talking about leveraging support in product management - which is what we do here.
Noon eastern.
Register here. Warning: they only support Windows for these webinars. (Aaargh.) You can watch archived webinars via Flash though.