Product Manager - version 2.0 @ Scrum India Dec 2011

The Scrum India Dec 2011 NCR meetup at Xebia, offered me a perfect opportunity to rant about my expectations from today's Product Managers in the agile world today, as we go about our daily (product development) chores. This post was takeoff from my earlier post sometime back on bringing the business dashboard closer to the workforce on the ground and linking the agile world with the overall business objectives. Feel free to comment on my digs and leave your feedback in the comments.

Ofcourse my presentation was in the Pecha Kucha style (my first one) and think i did ok :-),but you can watch my presentation video recording at the WizIQ channel.

Overall it was interesting to hear Amit Somani (MakeMyTrip) and their struggles to get the product managers, with some controversial points by Rajat Bhalla (Vinsol). You can watch all the video recordings at the WizIQ channel (video recording sponsors).

Product Manager - version 2.0 

Product Manager - version 2.0

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Is your Agile dashboard == Business dashboard?

Agile dashboards include Burn down charts (product\release\iteration), team velocity charts, backlog items (product\iteration) = Agile denominators

Business dashboards have managers measuring the schedule, resources, quality.. ; CXO's measuring the ROI\ ROCE\... ; and the business analysts have the Quick Ratios \ quarterly stock price\ EPS expectations to ponder = Business (Economic) denominators

But do we measure and communicate the relationship between the agile denominators and the economic denominators? Can you say that if my project agile denominators are high (low), my organization economic denominators are high (low)?

Or is the agile denominator dashboard only for the masses (teams executing projects) and the 'sacred' economic denominator dashboard for the management?

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