Tag: lean
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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 Lean Enterprise” (Book Review)
Most of the product people or businesses that I speak to all seem to want one thing: to be ‘lean’. They all nod when you talk about wasting resources on making products that no wants to buy. They’ve picked up on the approach adopted by many successful startups who have got the capacity to learn…
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Interviewing customers to explore problems and solutions
I recently learned more about the distinction between ‘problem interviews’ and ‘solution interviews’, when interacting with your customers. The problem interview is Ash Maurya’s term for the interview you conduct to validate whether or not there’s a real problem that our target audience has. In contrast, the goal of a solution interview is to find out what…
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