Category: Product Management
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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…
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“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…
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Jeff Gothelf and Lean UX
In case you don’t know, I’m a big advocate of “Lean UX” and the work of Jeff Gothelf on this topic. It was Jeff who originally coined the term ‘Lean UX’ and wrote a great book about it, together with Josh Seiden. In short, Lean UX is all about not doing all your product design…
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Why I am a big fan of Dan North and behaviour driven development
I believe that “behaviour-driven development” (‘BDD’) is one of those techniques that when you have done it once, you are likely to keep applying it. BDD was first introduced by Dan North, a well known Agile and Lean technology specialist, and is great tool for specifying and communicating the behavioural changes that one wants to achieve.…
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“The Checklist Manifesto” (Book Review)
Before I tell you more about “The Checklist Manifesto” written by Atuwal Gawande, a US-based surgeon, I feel I need to make a confession: I LOVE check and to do lists. The Checklist Manifesto therefore felt like the right book for me to read since it explains the role and value of checklists. In this book,…
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