Building the Right Product vs Building the Product Right
In his book “Specification by Example – How successful teams deliver the right software”, Gojko Adzic had some interesting quotes about building the right product.
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The Product Owner Triangle of Tension: Wants, Needs & Feasibility
How do you manage the inevitable tension between what stakeholders want, what is needed, and what’s feasible? As Product Managers or Product Owners, we constantly navigate this ‘Triangle of Tension,’ balancing human dynamics with practical constraints.
MVP: Why We Confuse Building to Learn with Building to Earn
Minimum viable product (MVP) is one of the most misunderstood, misused, and abused terms in contemporary software development. In this presentation Jeff Patton explains the misunderstandings made by thought leaders that lead to confusion we all deal with today.
Learning in Product: How Wrong are You Ready to Be?
While many Scrum teams talk proudly about progress, fewer engage in rich discussions about product. Many teams who become more confident in progress, or getting work done, often embrace the more ambiguous question of product, or “Are we meeting the needs of our customers”, with some customers buying, by paying for subscriptions, and others buying in, by showing (and glowing about) their use of the system.
MVP Testing: How to Validate Your Product Idea Quickly and Effectively
MVP or minimum viable product is a test of a hypothesis about the value of a product to the user. MVP allows you to quickly and cost-effectively test an idea to see if the market needs such a product.
The Product Confidence Trap for Agile Teams
This presentation to provides a framework with which Agile teams can assess their product context, grow confidence in the insight they have developed, and decide on their next best option to deliver customer value. This is the pattern to follow to help break out of the ‘Product Confidence Trap’.
Five Mistakes to Avoid When You Select Product Metrics
Product metrics and key performance indicator(KPIs) have been getting increasingly more important and useful for Agile organizations that develop digital products. When done right, they can become an engine for product growth and inform great strategic and tactical decisions. When done wrong, they can lead to a huge amount of sunk resources and wasted time.