Tag: lean
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Book review: Sprint (Part 4 – Day 3)
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 […]
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Book review: Sprint (Part 3 – Day 2)
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 […]
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Book review: Sprint (Part 2 – Day 1)
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 […]
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My product management toolkit (13): Continuous Discovery
I know it’s a bit of a bugbear of mine; people coming up with assumptions and jumping straight into solutions to address their assumptions: “I know what my customers want” “I know that I’m right” “I’ve got umpteen years of experience in this sector, I know what people want” “We’ve defined all customer requirements, we now […]
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My product management toolkit (12): My 90 day plan as a product person
Soon I’ll be starting a new role as a Head of Product at a great FinTech business in London. I’m very excited about the role. There’s a lot of opportunity to make an impact and influence change. But where do I start? How do I prioritise change? These questions prompted me to start thinking about […]
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