Agile Transformation

Lean Product Development: Dealing with Business Emergency

We all know biggest risk in the product development is building a WRONG product. There are numerous examples from history to see why some products did not see light of the day or big success.

Recently, I came across a product team which took MVP approach and built a product which saw very good initial success. But with time product was unable to keep the users engaged and convert initial success to revenue to keep it floating.

Some of the questions the team started to deliberate were:

Is this a good product idea but a targeting wrong market segment….? OR
We are in right user segment but not a right product/idea – the one which does not solve user problems completely.

Enterprise Agile Transformation – Are You Able to See Big Elephant?

by ShriKant Vashishtha Leave a Comment

Implementing Agile in a big enterprise is not an easy task. The metaphor I sometimes use for big enterprise is to compare it with Elephant. It’s very easy for a small living being to move and maneuver. However when it comes to elephant, it requires time to build momentum and when it actually moves, it moves slowly.

People involved in Agile transformation get frustrated because of all perceived delays. Frustration is understandable but not sure if much can be done other than understanding the simple reality that you are dealing with an elephant and not a tiger or mouse.
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