Even though I have been writing consistently about product now for more than two decades, including a few books, I have thus far managed to avoid using the term “product sense.” That was not an accident. I have always disliked the term, and I especially dislike the implications. But for whatever reason, a lot more...
The past several articles have discussed the nature of Continuous Discovery. In this article I’d like to discuss another dimension of working effectively in an Agile environment, which is how we manage commitments. In most Agile teams, when you mention commitments (like knowing what you’re going to launch and when it will happen), you get...
There are so many good books available today that try to explain to company leaders the advantages of empowering your people. Some of my current favorites include: Leaders Eat Last, Startup Nation, The Art of Action, Turn the Ship Around, Extreme Ownership, Team of Teams, and Leadership is Language. I consider each of these inspiring...
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An Empowered Product Team’s Pledge To Customers As a company moves from sales-driven feature teams to empowered product teams, there are some fairly significant changes to how the product teams need to interact with customers. Most of those changes are not directly visible to the customers, as they involve how product teams do their daily...
How Big Tech companies innovate and create mega-successful products. The answer goes much deeper than just process.
One month ago I subscribed to Digit, a service that promises a way to “save money without thinking about it”. The way it works is simple – you submit your mobile number, link your bank account and you’re pretty much set. There are no apps, no user interfaces or additional confirmations. The only thing Digit [...] Read more »
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview: Directed by Paul Sen. With Robert X. Cringely, Steve Jobs. A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple.
Like most of us, when Melissa Perri started as a product manager she started with giant requirements documents, dutifully recording every little detail from stakeholders and turning them into shiny docs for the developers. Then she discovered Agile and churned out features even faster. But eventually she realised that she had been building features for [...] Read more »
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