I’m not sure yet that hiring a Product Manager to produce a Dsp Specifications Document is going to result in much more than an inert piece of paper. It seems we need to have a convo about agile vs waterfall product development and why the industry is moving toward agile.
If the Product Manager role was doing what a Scrum Product Owner does, I’d feel confident that we’d have something genuinely useful. A Product Owner works with workers and stakeholders to clarify and prioritize product requirements as user stories in a work backlog. The team starts working right away to produce useful improvements we can get feedback on and iterate off of.
Can grants only be won in exchange for us conforming to waterfall-style planning and mode of work? But what if that mode of work and planning just doesn’t work? Agile was a response to waterfall-planning’s problems, so it seems in exchange for funding, we’d be committing to many of waterfall-planning’s problems.
Lastly, the Product Owner would be trying to have convos with stakeholders, members, and customers at Resonate to clarify requirements for what we want. With capacity here so low, who is going to be available for these convos? And will those who aren’t available accept the vision and priorities set by the Product Owner/Manager without their input?