white papers & articles
- Intellectual Asset Management Magazine: CIPO Innovation Games
At the June 2009 meeting of the Chief Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO) Manifesto Working Group, Luke Hohmann led an extended series of Innovation Games to help the group identify/clarify their oles, challenges, relationships to other business functions, and the ideal CIPO in the year 2015...
- New White Paper on Business Agility
Scott Gilbert and the Enthiosys team have written a white paper called “Business Agility: Harness the Power of What’s Possible” and distributed copies of at Agile 2009. We’re now asking for feedback from the broader product management, product owner and agile communities...
- Cutter Consortium: “The Message Driven Warehouse”
“The Message Driven Warehouse: A New Architectural Model for BI Systems,” written by Enthiosys’ Ken Collier and Dan O’Leary, was published by Cutter Consortium.
In this Executive Report, Ken Collier and Dan O’Leary introduce an enhanced data warehousing architecture designed to enable developers to respond quickly to new requirements and to adapt easily to change...
GlobalLogic: Using Games to Shape Products
We had two days of fun filled and very effective sessions with Luke Hohmann on ‘Innovation Games’ .You could read more about these games at http://innovationgames.com/the-games/
Initially, I was a little apprehensive about the sessions as I was involved in preparing for these sessions and there was quite some stuff including stickers to be collected...
- QRCA: “Selling Qualitative Market Research to Agile Software Developers” by Luke Hohmann
Luke Hohmann’s article in the Winter 2008 edition of QRCA Views (published by the Qualitative Research Consultants Association) is called “Tips on Selling Qualitative Market Research to Agile Software Developers.”
“The hottest topic in the software-development community, Agile software
development is a new way of producing higher-quality software in record time...
- Nov-14-08: Scott Gilbert and Jeff Brantley webinar on “Agile Roadmapping”
What: “Agile Roadmapping” – Scott Gilbert, President of Enthiosys & Jeff Brantley, Director, of Product Management for Borland)
When: Friday, November 14th
This webinar is part of a joint Pragmatic/Enthiosys series on Agile Product Management.
Our roadmapping tools, templates and approach are described here...
- Nov-7-08: Luke Hohmann webinar on “Prioritizing Your Backlog for Profit”
What: “Prioritizing for Profit” with Luke Hohmann, CEO, Enthiosys.
When: Friday, November 7th, 2008
This event was part of a joint webinar series with Pragmatic Marketing on Agile Product Management.
Agile product managers (and their Agile development teams) are told to prioritize backlogs based on ROI. In practice, this isn’t possible...
- Oct-29-08: “Building your Agile Roadmap” webinar with Jason Tanner
What: “Building your Agile Roadmap” with Jason Tanner
When: Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 – 12PM EST
Where: register for the webinar here
Listen to the webinar here.
This webinar is for those who want to learn the basics of building an Agile roadmap, what its component parts are, how they interact, why they are important and how to apply them to a product...
- Oct-24-08: “Product Companies need Product Managers, not Product Owners” webinar with Rich Mironov
What: ”Product Companies need Product Managers, not Product Owners”
Who: Rich Mironov, CMO, Enthiosys as part of a joint Pragmatic/Enthiosys webinar series on Agile Product Management
When: Friday, October 24th, 2008
Product Managers are responsible for the overall market success of their products, not just delivery of software...
- Tips on Selling Qualitative Market Research to Agile Software Developers
This article was written for QRCA, the Qualitative Research Consultants Association.
Agile Software Development is the hottest topic in the software development community. It is a new way of developing software that is producing higher quality software in record time...
- Jul-23-08: Scott Gilbert webinar on Gathering Market Inputs
Scott Gilbert, Enthiosys president, will join Ryma’s product management webinar series.
What: “Gathering Market Inputs Within Different Product Planning Horizons”
When: Weds, July 23, 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
Where: register here
These days, product managers have an increasing array of market and customer data input gathering tools and methods available to them...
- Agile Product Management white paper
After speaking, consulting, writing and teach about Agile Product Management, we’ve captured some of our core ideas about APM into a white paper.
“Technology companies are moving toward Agile development. This is driven by the need to improve productivity, boost product quality, and make delivery against business goals more predictable...
- May-7-08: “Chefs & Grocers” webinar on SaaS
Rich Mironov presented a webinar on May 7th called “Grocers and Chefs: Service-Model Thinking for Product-Model Folks.” This was part of Ryma Technology’s ongoing Product Management View webinar series.
When: May 7th
Download the presentation here.
Download the podcast here.
Download the flash presentation here...
- Feb-27-08: “Aligning Business Models” Webinar
Luke Hohmann, Enthiosys CEO, is featured in a February 27th Product Management View webinar series hosted by FeaturePlan.
When: February 27, 2008, 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST
Where: register here
“Aligning Business Models and Technology Architectures”
You’re a software product manager because you love creating great products, not just for the fame and fortune...
- PDMA Journal Reviews Innovation Games®
In the November issue of PDMA’s Journal of Product Innovation Management, Christina Brodie reviewed Luke Hohmann’s “Innovation Games®: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play.”
She noted that “experienced facilitators will have no difficulty using the games and in fact will find these 12 games a useful way to stimulate innovative thinking...
- buzz: QCON learns about software architecture
Luke Hohmann’s 8-Nov presentation at QCON/SF drew lots of attention and coverage.
SD Times quoted him extensively in a piece headlined Use the Force, Luke. “Hohmann began his talk by revealing an exercise he uses when he is first called in as a software development consultant: He asks everyone on the development team to draw his or her view of the architecture...
- buzz: David Alfaro blogs on importance of Roadmaps to Scrum
David is a facilitator and ScrumMaster at Artinsoft. The most recent post on his “Scrum Costa Rica” blog is called “Agile is about Reality not Fairy Tales” and talks about the importance of roadmapping for Scrum, plus the crucial role of the Product Owner in defining profitability, user stories and adaptive software models...
- QCON presentation: Managing Architectural Change
Luke Hohmann’s presentation at November’s QCON San Francisco, a joint effort of InfoQ and JAOO, covered software architecture and its relation to agile processes. See the full presentation here in PDF.
An important part of the talk dealt with roadmaps, agile development, and finding strategic value in both short-term and longer-term planning artifacts
- VeriSign and Enthiosys present agile lessons in joint IEEE paper
This IEEE-published paper by VeriSign’s Peter Hodgkins and Enthiosys’ Luke Hohmann describes how VeriSign’s Managed Security Services team (MSS) has successfully extended agile software development practices to deal with a complex, multi-product development organization; overcome team structuring challenges, and used a program management office for organizational “glue...
- 08/05/07 - Luke Hohmann featured in Software Engineering Radio podcast
This August 2007 podcast features “Luke Hohmann on Architecture and Business.” Building on his book Beyond Software Architecture, he discusses how branding, licensing and different deployment scenarios influence the technical architecture of a system
- Cutter Consortium: “Exposing and Overcoming the Dirty Secrets of Agile Development”
”Exposing and Overcoming the Dirty Secrets of Agile Development,” written by Enthiosys’ Ken Collier and Luke Hohmann, was published by Cutter Consortium.
“Agile development methods are proving to be a highly effective approach to delivering high-quality software and systems that delight their consumers...
