UltraVista Inc

As defined by the Project Management Institute, the project management “is the practice of using knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to complete a series of tasks to deliver value and achieve a desired outcome”. The project management is about managing a series of structured tasks, activities, and deliverables that are carefully executed to achieve a desired outcome, managing temporary efforts to create value through unique products, services, and processes. And with recent advances of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and push of AI into project management even from organizations that have traditionally safeguarding project management Artificial Intelligence in Project Management | PMI), what can possibly go wrong? Let’s explore!

Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland are the leading Agile evangelists and the originators of Scrum Framework. They developed Scrum in the early 1990s and wrote the first version of the Scrum Guide in 2010 to help people worldwide understand Scrum. Thet have been following the growing use of Scrum Framework within an ever-growing complex world, and pleased with what they have seen, they have written an update to the Scrum Guide. Let's see what they have come up with this time.

A product manager is the person who identifies the customer need and the larger business objectives that a product or feature will fulfill, articulates what success looks like for a product, and rallies a team to turn that vision into a reality. After 10 years of studying the craft of product management, I’ve developed a deep understanding of what it means to be a product manager.

One of our many biases as human beings is to, every now and then, confuse the means (the approach; what we need to get somewhere) with the ends (the destination; where we want to go). This seems to be happening more and more often with agile. If you look at the slide decks by some of the world’s biggest consulting firms, you’d think that agility is the solution to all problems.