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Kent McDonald

Product Manager & Writer @ KBPmedia

Kent is an accomplished product management professional who works with cross functional teams to discover and deliver maximum outcome with minimum output. He uses business analysis and facilitation techniques to build a shared understanding between product teams and stakeholders from all relevant parts of the organization.

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Product Strategy

Product Strategy

Product Strategy

Roadmapping

Roadmapping

prioritization

prioritization

Communication, Relationships, and Stakeholders

Communication, Relationships, and Stakeholders

Communication, Relationships, and Stakeholders

career-and-recruiting

career-and-recruiting

Career and Recruiting

Kent's contributions

18 Jan 2023

How to Launch a Digital Product

Launching a digital product may seem like a overwhelming task, however, with this step by step guide, you’ll have all the information you need to let your product soar.

3 Oct 2022

How Do You Decide What Goes on your Roadmap

Have you ever given much thought to why you put a roadmap together? Here’s a look at how to make intentional roadmap prioritization decisions.

3 Aug 2022

What Product Managers Really Need To Know About MVPs

A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is the version of a product that allows your product team to learn the most about customers’ needs with the least effort.

9 Feb 2022

Experiment Driven Roadmap

An experiment-driven roadmap is a communication vehicle that shows the experiments a product team (or collection of product teams) plans to try out in order to reach specific outcomes in various time horizons.

28 Jan 2022

How To Use Empathy To Be a Better Product Manager

Here’s a look at empathy, explaining why it’s important for product managers and what you can do to build your empathy muscles.

17 Dec 2021

How To Align OKRs to Roadmaps

OKR’s help you put some metrics around the problem you’re trying to solve. Roadmaps help you communicate the things you’re going to use to reach your outcome. Let's learn how to align them together.

8 Dec 2021

What To Do in Your First 30 - 60 - 90 Days as a Product Manager

The 30-60-90 day plan provides a personal definition of success for your first three months on the job.

4 Nov 2021

What Is Dual-track Agile

Dual-track agile (also known as dual track development) is an attempt to incorporate iterative discovery into existing agile approaches.

3 Nov 2021

XP - Extreme Programming - A Guide for Product Managers

Extreme programming (XP) is an agile software development framework that focuses on a set of values and practices.

5 Oct 2021

Working With Your Product Development Team

Product managers can't deliver a product on their own. They need to work effectively with their product development team to deliver a successful product.

6 Sep 2021

The Kanban Method - A Product Manager's Guide

The Kanban method is an approach you can use to to design, manage, and improve flow systems for product development work. This guide takes a look at what Kanban is, the Kanban method in practice a more.

30 Aug 2021

The Scrum Framework - What Product Managers Need to Know

Scrum is a framework for developing products in an iterative and incremental manner. This guide explains a product manager's role in Scrum.

30 Aug 2021

Agile Development: An Actionable Guide for Product Managers

Here’s a look at what agile development really is. It includes an explanation of the Agile Manifesto and what product people need to know about agile.

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