Dual-track Stakeholder Review
tl;dr: Your product team will need to keep its work visible to stakeholders outside the team. If your product team is doing both discovery and delivery, you’ll need to review...
View ArticleProduct Discovery Recipes
More info coming soon… But, here’s the link to download the pdf
View ArticleThe Mindset That Kills Product Thinking
The service provider antipattern baked into our thinking, processes, and culture. Here's how it hurts us.
View ArticleKeep actual effort and outcome visible
Beam me up We all understand how a star trek transporter works. Which is surprising since it’s not real and I don’t even understand how my toaster oven works. But,...
View ArticleTension: why product development requires balancing conflicting goals
This article describes the simple language I use to describe product development: opportunity, output, outcome, and impact. But more importantly it describes the tensions and unexpected implications...
View ArticleProduct Vision is Science Fiction
This article describes my beliefs on what product vision is and isn’t.
View ArticleUnderpants gnomes, Outcomes, and Intermittent Reinforcement
Organizations and the people in them irrationally and addictively build and release products that often have no real value. This article gives my best explanation why.
View ArticleFive common story mapping mistakes
This article is really some of the common mistakes I see people and teams make when they create and work with story maps. 1. Losing the story 2. Getting lost in the details 3. Worrying too much about...
View ArticleEvaluating Product Managers
I’ve got 7 areas I think about when talking to and evaluating a product manager and here they are.
View ArticleThe Continuous Product Improvement Cycle
This article describes the continuous product improvement cycle: the foundational model I use in teaching product development. The article describes why products continuously improve and why there’s an...
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