Changing How You Build
By Jon Moore and Marty Cagan Recently we shared an article defining what we mean by true transformation where we...
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An SVPG Process?
Recently I’ve been sharing more publicly my growing concern about product organizations’ increasing focus on heavyweight processes and process people....
read moreScaling Agile FAQ
Recently I published an article Revenge of the PMO that argues against a particular framework for agile at scale known...
read moreLearning Fast vs. Failing Fast
By SVPG Partner Chris Jones At this point, nearly everyone in product at some point has heard phrases like “fail...
read moreProcess vs. Model
There’s an old saying which comes from the world of statistics: “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” This...
read moreBeyond Lean and Agile
I have been working exclusively with technology product teams now for a full 35 years, and I’ve seen countless processes,...
read moreProduct Fail
NOTE: This article is a narrative version of a talk I’ve given for developers at the Craft Conference and for...
read moreBig Bang Releases
What is a “Big Bang” release? This is when a team works for several months on a project with the...
read moreEngineers and Sales People
Believe it or not, there are still people out there that think that a technology company is really about two...
read moreTop 10 Reasons for Weak Product
In my last article I discussed the top reasons for slow product, and here I wanted to highlight the top...
read moreTechnology First vs. Needs First
There’s a debate that’s been going on in the design and user research community because the legendary Don Norman wrote...
read moreNo Silver Bullet
More than 20 years ago Fred Brooks published a seminal essay on the nature of software, called “No Silver Bullet:...
read moreProduct Discovery Diary
When product managers and designers move from the very linear, Waterfall-based processes, to the much more iterative and exploratory discovery-based...
read moreHow To Kill Innovation
Last week I ran into two different software technology companies (neither in Silicon Valley) that had just recently brought in...
read moreLeft Of The Line
I picked up this phrase “left of the line” from my friends at the e-commerce site kbb.com. At the highest...
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