This article continues the series exploring the root causes of product failure. Even when you target the right users, and identify which of their problems are important to solve, you may still fail to solve the problems sufficiently.
Agile / People management / Process Improvement / Software development
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Specializing Generalist
The ideal agile team is made up of specializing generalists – but what does that really mean? The goal isn’t to prevent functional silos of expertise, it is to allow people to cover for each other.
Agile / Software development / UX
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Good Stuff on Agile and UXD
Best practices for user experience design and agile. I don’t have the brainpower at the moment, or the experience and eloquence in general, to say it better than these guys. So this week, I’m phoning it in, and deferring to these folks to say it far better than I can.
Business Analysis / Interaction design / Product Management / UX
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Cadence Versus Risk
I’ve been thinking about the software development process. Big, upfront, design and requirements. User research and analysis. Market insights, gained on exploration or over time. Release cadence – how quickly you get, and incorporate, feedback from your customers about your product. How quickly you react to your competitors’ reactions to […]
Agile / Product Management / Requirements / Software development
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Satisficing Sprints
Satisficing probably makes more sense than perfecting your product. Can? Open. Worms? Everywhere. Are we really saying “don’t make it perfect?” Yup.
Agile / Product Management / Requirements gathering / ROI / Software development
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Market Driven Competitive Advantage
Your strategy should be driven by the needs of the market. Becoming market-driven is critical to intentional product success. But it is not enough to understand your market. You have to sustain your understanding, and take advantage of it, competitively.
Agile / Slightly off-topic
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Good Enough For Now
Adam Bullied wrote a really good article about not losing motivation in the face of challenges. His closing quote spun us off on a philosophical tangent about being “good enough.”
Agile / Prioritization / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / ROI / Software development
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Successful Products: Lucky or Intentional?
Is your product successful because you were lucky, or because you were methodical and intentional? Do you want to build a plan where you are dependent on good fortune, or do you want to make your own “luck?” Both approaches work, but only one makes sense as an intention. Slide […]
Flashback
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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [May10]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.