Technology Consulting: Influencing Organizational Culture Beyond Technical Solutions
The role of a technology consultant might seem straightforward: provide analysis of and solutions to a customer’s tech-related problems. However,
Product Management
One of the most important functions in a successful technology company, product management significantly impacts every other function in a successful enterprise. Modern product life cycles require updated approaches to product management. Solid product management serves customers, drives rapid growth, and creates profits.
What User Stories and ChatBot Prompts Have in Common
As a product owner, you want to convey to your team the context around a desired feature. Who is it
What’s the Purpose of a Minimum Viable Product?
Software product development is a design hypothesis testing exercise (as we pointed out in our post on the iterative process).
That’ll Break Everything: Creating a Technology Roadmap
“That’ll break everything!” Ever heard someone say that, or something like it before and wished you had some, any, kind
How to Build a Domain Model
I have written frequently about what a domain model is and why it’s important to have one. Reading those posts
What Does it Really Mean to be Intuitive?
The highest praise a user interface can receive is to be called intuitive. The users don’t have to think about
Product Owner Nightmares: The Unknown Unknowns
As a product owner, what keeps me up at night is the thought that there are unknown problems lying in
When Do You Have Enough Requirements?
As a product manager, balancing the priorities of product features with their level of detail is key to shipping the
Getting Software Right: The Iterative Process in an Agile Environment
At its heart, software development is a hypothesis testing process. Based on your team’s experience and their understanding of the
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
Good Designs Starts with the User As designers, we want to make something unique, something that stands out, catches the
5 Critical Success Factors for Agile Transformations
Last week we hosted a panel discussion on Agile. We had three excellent panelists, Patricia Remacle (SVP Product, Hobsons), Ankur
Aligning Product Management and Sales to Win
While it may not seem evident in day to day business, there is quite a bit of symmetry between product
A Mock Conversation
Have you ever been part of a conversation that goes something like this? Sales We can’t sell the product as
The Gettysburg Address and Developing the Right Product
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address is a perfect product. In under 300 words, Lincoln synthesized all of the arguments for why
UI, Usability and UX: The Square Milk Jug Edition
Any confident product designer has a ready answer to this simple question: What’s the biggest impediment to designing a perfect
A Developer’s Perspective on the Importance of Business Focus
Business executives often view software developers as the strange, but necessary, creatures that create the code that makes the business