The Opportunity Backlog
Recently I was with my friend Jeff Patton, one of the pioneers in applying Agile to product organizations, and he...
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Live-Data Prototypes vs. Production
I have written earlier about the differences between user prototypes (simulations intended to test the user experience), and live-data prototypes...
read moreProduct Market Fit vs. Product Vision
Earlier I expanded on the notion of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and I promised a series of articles that explores...
read moreLean Thinking
A while ago I posted an article on people that I think have something really valuable to say to product...
read moreMinimum Viable Product
One of the most important concepts in all of software is the notion of minimum viable product (often referred to...
read moreThe Two Core Competencies
Good product teams must be good at product discovery, which means they must get good at learning quickly. They need...
read moreThe Importance Of Failing
Recently a friend of mine sent me a link to this short video from totally outside of the technology field. ...
read moreProduct Discovery With Live-Data Prototypes
In my last article I discussed the keys to product optimization including A/B testing. However, I emphasized that this type...
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 moreProduct Discovery for Non-Technology Products
Article: Product Discovery for Non-Technology Products I’m often asked whether or not the concepts that I advocate and write about...
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 moreThe Product Discovery Plan
In my last article, I discussed the situation where Product Discovery is essentially not discovery at all, but rather just...
read moreProduct Discovery vs. Product Optimization
As readers of these articles know, I am a big fan of high-fidelity prototyping and user testing on current or...
read moreThe Two-Week Rule
I need to interrupt my series of articles on product portfolio planning because over the past week I learned of...
read moreLessons From Incubators
In the last couple articles I discussed product portfolio planning lessons we can learn from the Venture Capital industry. In...
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