product development

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Artefact Driven Delivery My preference when approaching solution delivery (I use that term in preference to software delivery, because #NoSoftware) has for the past 25 years centred on artefacts as opposed to tasks....

Embrace “Unknowns”, have fun discovering (my Dribbble)5 years back, when I started my career at a design agency, there was no such thing called “product discovery”. My first project simply started with the...

Reading Time: 6 minutesBy: Nicholas Mistretta Imagine that your company has just come up with an idea for a new product that solves all the world’s problems. OK, perhaps that’s a bit too lofty, so let’s say it...

Consumer behaviour and engagement with products, brands, and channels has changed over the past year to a point that so much that innovation must now be top of mind for today’s corporate leaders. A crisis should not...

An analysis of the Product Owner accountabilityA few weeks ago, Maarten Dalmijn published an article that made me think. He states he never encountered a Product Owner as prescribed in the Scrum Guide. He especially has...

To keep up to date with all of the latest news in SaaS, sign up here.  The SaaS model is now an industry mainstay. It has shifted the way users perceive digital products, from discrete software version releases to a...

How Basecamp’s Hill Chart provides a useful frame of reference to master the Startup chaosPhoto by Karl Bewick on UnsplashWorking at startups can often feel as an exercise in balance. With so many things happening...

If you want innovative products, you must ditch standard stories.As a UX Tutor, I review hundreds of user stories from aspiring designers striving to address their personas’ needs — although they accidentally...

Growth marketing is a process of rapid experimentation, which in a way has to be “scientific” by keeping in mind that it is used by startups to grow, quickly. Thus, the “scientific” here is not meant in the...

A Project Execution Plan (PEP) details the strategy required for managing a project. It is sometimes referred to as a project management plan. Generally speaking, PEPs are drafted by the client’s project director or...

WhatsApp or Signal — or both?Would you switch? How important is it for you?WhatsApp or Signal or BothThere have been a plethora of articles, news reports, facts mixed with rumours plastered all over the web...

Bayesian AB Testing — Part IV — Choosing a PriorHow to choose a sensible prior distribution for your test metricsPhoto by Jason Dent on UnsplashSeries StructureThis post is the 4th part of a series of...

There are many different types of Product Owners — Not all of them respect ScrumThe Product Owner is one of the three accountabilities of Scrum. According to the most recent Scrum Guide, this accountability...

Photo by Christin Hume on UnsplashWhen the pandemic hit hard, I started to do weekly 1:1s with people all over the world as my small attempt to help people. I talked with a bunch of aspiring Product Managers (PMs), and...

Winnebago Industries may have been an iconic brand in the minds of the American public, but five years ago the venerable recreational-vehicle company wasn’t performing like a blue-chipper in the marketplace. In the...

Getty ImagesPrice is much more than just a dollar figure — it’s a representation of value and the single most critical factor in determining whether a product will make money. Yet, it’s usually an...

Yousuf Khan Contributor Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures. Prior to joining Ridge, he was the first CIO of Automation Anywhere, CIO and Vice President of Customer Success at cloud-based AI platform...