Product Management
At Revelry, Product Management plays a critical role in helping deliver custom software that supports business success. Charged with directing priorities, ensuring product priorities remain a part of the vision, and keeping projects running smoothly and efficiently, our PMs are pretty amazing. They share some of what they know in the blog posts below.
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Getting Your Product to Market Fast: Two Approaches to Support
In the world of software product development, unexpected problems are par for the course. Deadlines shift. Projects become more complex than anticipated. Systems crash….
Why Your Team Needs a Product Manager
At Revelry, we like to think of our product managers as both the conductor and the orchestrator – directing priorities and ensuring those priorities…
Building Software is Like Creating a Theatre Production
As a person who is new to coding, I like to try to find parallels for things that are more familiar to me. Since…
Wordle as a Metaphor for the Software Development Process
We at Revelry have a #wordelry channel in Slack where we share our Wordle scores and commiserate about unlucky guesses. It’s a great way…
Why Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Makes User Stories 100% Better
At Revelry, we use BDD for all members of the team — and yes, that team includes our clients — so that everyone is clear about the intended user experience in the final product. Revelry’s flavor of BDD is a process for describing software features that is biased toward user’s actions and the results of those actions.
Online Planning Poker for Accelerated Decision Making
Planning poker is an important part of estimating time spent on a project. But how do companies that recently went remote do planning poker? Here’s how we do planning poker for remote teams.
Why We Care So Much About Sprint Commitments (and we hope you will too)
Sometimes, clients even say “but I don’t care about the commitment.” Firstly, I question whether that is true deep down. It’s hard for me to imagine someone paying a significant amount of money to have a problem solved,and then not caring when that solution ships, or even which parts of the solution ship in which order.
Most Common Project Terms at Revelry: Part 2
I’ve chosen this specific list as part of an effort to foster a shared understanding of commonly used terms. This “glossary” doesn’t exist in a vacuum – it can (and should) continue to be challenged and evolve over time as our understanding changes.
History of Virtual Reality, Part 3: Welcome to the Metaverse
I, for one, am looking forward to the dawn of the metaverse, and I hope to see all of you on the other side.
Here’s How We Survived a Two Week Fire Drill
Speaking up about potential challenges is a normal and important part of our process. When a teammate raises a fire drill, available or relevant teammates participate in the topic thread. Sometimes, we resolve the issue in a few minutes. And other times, we identify a major challenge and take the conversation to the product owner to discuss next steps.