Category: Agile
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“Click” (Book Review)
Do you ever wonder how to make sure that your product is differentiated enough? Thinking about what makes it unique or better than market alternatives? Then you should read “Click” by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (who you might know from the highly successful “Sprint” book about the Design Sprint). Click introduces the “Foundation Sprint”…
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“Software Profit Streams” (Book Review)
“This book will help you design sustainably profitable Software-Enabled Solutions” states the core promise of “Software Profit Streams: A Guide to Designing A Sustainably Profitable Business” by Jason Tanner and Luke Hohmann, CEO and CIO respectively at Applied Frameworks. Before we delve into the main content of the book, it’s worth explaining some of the…
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My Product Management Toolkit (56): Spotify’s ‘Bets Board’
“Thinking in bets starts with recognising that there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. Learning to recognise the difference between the two is what thinking in bets is all about.” Annie Duke, “Thinking in Bets” In business terms, ‘bets’ are the investments or…
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My Product Management Toolkit (49): Systems Thinking tools & techniques
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Systems Thinking discipline. My main learning point about Systems Thinking was the interconnectedness of the parts that make up a system. Understanding the different parts and how they interact with each other is critical in developing a full understanding of the problem or opportunity to tackle.…
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“Ask Your Developer” (Book Review)
“The truth is that most software is pretty simple. It’s what developers call CRUD applications: Create, Read, Update, Delete. Most apps online are forms that let the user input data, modify data, report out data, or delete data. Nearly every website or mobile app you’ve ever used is 95 percent CRUD operations. This isn’t rocket…
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