Category: Product Management
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Seeing the Toyota way in action
After having read a lot about the Toyota way of doing things, I had a chance to visit the Toyota plant in Burnaston, Derbyshire. Every now and then Toyota open up their factories to public visits and I went in there a few months ago to see things for myself. Reading books like The Toyota Way…
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Book review: “Impact Mapping”
“Impact Mapping” is only 73 pages long but quality definitely rules over quantity in the case of this book by software delivery consultant Gojko Adzic. Too often we run the risk of diving into a software project or a product backlog without taking a step back to wonder “WHY?” or “HOW?”. If this sounds even…
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Book review: “Developing Products in Half the Time”
Partly due to the advocates of the Lean Startup movement, these days lots of people in the product space talk about rapid product development and looking at ways to get their products to market faster. Actually, one could argue that the roots of this idea are much older and the book “Developing Products in Half…
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Rapid prototyping – Storyboarding, paper prototyping and digital mockups
In a the online Human-Computer Interaction course that I did recently, I learned quite a bit about “rapid prototyping”. As the name suggests rapid prototyping is all about mocking up ideas quickly, to get user feedback fast. In the lecture on this topic, Scott Klemmer – an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science &…
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How to find out find out about user needs and problems?
I wanted to learn more about Human-Computer Interaction and so I decided to do an online course by Scott Klemmer, an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Human-Computer Interaction (‘HCI’) is all about the study, design and planning…
