Category: Lean

• “Sprint” [Day 3] (Book Review)

  

  Once you’ve starting to think about possible solution – during Day 2 of the sprint – the next step is to take your huge pile of solutions and decide on which solution(s) to prototype. In the morning, you’ll review and critique the different solutions and select those solutions which you feel have the best change…

  marcabraham

  September 7, 2016

  Agile, Design, Lean, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  design, Google, lean, product management, UX

• “Sprint” [Day 2] (Book Review)

  

  Once you’ve set a target as part of Day 1 of your sprint, the next step is for you and your team to look at solutions. On the second day of the sprint, you’ll be coming up with solutions, and sketching them. This day consists of two key activities: (1) review ideas to remix and…

  marcabraham

  September 3, 2016

  Agile, Design, Google, Lean, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  Agile, design, lean, product management, startup, UX

• “Sprint” [Day 1] (Book Review)

  

  In my previous post I started looking at doing 5-day sprints to discover and test solutions for a problem that you’re trying to solve. This follows my reading of “Sprint” by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz. Once you’ve set the stage for a sprint, it’s time to kick things off: the first day of…

  marcabraham

  September 1, 2016

  Agile, Design, Digital Strategy, Lean, Measuring, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  Agile, design, lean, product management, UX

• No more features on product roadmaps – Have themes or goals instead!

  

  You might have read my one of my previous blog posts about the so-called goal oriented roadmap. I  prefer goal-oriented roadmaps over their more traditional counterparts. My problem is that ‘classic’ roadmaps contain a mix of features and timings, but don’t provide any context whatsoever (I’ve included an example below). I typically don’t include features on a roadmap and focus on…

  marcabraham

  October 1, 2015

  Agile, Design, Lean, Measuring, Product Management, Product Marketing

  metrics, product management, strategy

• “What Product Managers Need To Know About Rapid Prototyping” (Book Review)

  

  “What Product  Managers Need To Know About Rapid Prototyping” by Mike Fishbein and Josh Wexler is a great ebook for any product manager keen on prototyping before building the actual product. Mike Fishbein is a content manager with Alpha UX and Josh Wexler is a solutions director at Originate. In this book, they’ve collated their learnings and tips…

  marcabraham

  September 3, 2015

  Lean, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  lean, product management, startup, strategy, UX