Product Development
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SUNDAY REWIND: A product development framework with a focus on problem solving
In this Sunday Rewind episode, we look back to when Manohar Sreekanth suggested a product development framework, designed to conceive a new product, develop it, and take it to market. […] Read more »
Killing product zombies: a five-step approach
As product people, we find features, processes, and products that aren’t functioning well. This article is an overview of a trigger list, that a team can refer to identify and kill such non-functioning product zombies. […] Read more »
Expectations and agreements in product management
As product people, expectations management is all around us in our daily job. In this article, Viktor Nagy summarizes a few areas where expectations play a crucial role, and what we can do to manage them well or sometimes turn them into agreements. […] Read more »
Product Diligence: The New Technical Diligence – Part two
Technical due diligence is a lot harder than it used to be with Agile. In the second part of his series, Drew Falkman proposes a pivot from technical diligence to product diligence. […] Read more »
Product Diligence: The New Technical Diligence - Part one
Technical due diligence is a lot harder than it used to be with Agile. In this post, Drew Falkman proposes a pivot from technical diligence to product diligence. Changing our view to focus on the product strategy, development, and management practices. […] Read more »
The (Def)inition Lab: Our recipe for reducing the risk of product failure
In this article, we share the process that we use at Def Method to help clients avoid product failure and ensure that they build to succeed. […] Read more »
Product development strategy: setup your product for success
Product development will not ever be an easy task. We have worked on a multitude of projects over the years and to this day we continue to run into roadblocks during development. This is a natural occurrence when you are tasked with bringing innovative ideas to life. Nonetheless we — along with many other teams […] Read more »
Mastering your product delivery: a guide on workflow management
Workflow is a managed flow in which your work goes from its inception all the way to its creation. This may sound easy at face value, but there are many moving parts that come in and out of the workflow process and before the workflow is even devised yet, there are many steps that come […] Read more »
Tips to collaborate better with your development team
Why are development teams so hard to work with? You’ve done your part—you have your OKRs, roadmaps, specs and designs in good shape. You’ve made delivery commitments to stakeholders. Now you just need to build those shiny new features. But your software engineers are questioning the business value, being non-committal on timelines, and their deliverables […] Read more »
Tools for agile product teams by Gavan Moule
In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, sponsored by Lucidspark, the company’s customer success manager Gavan Moule takes us through ways we can facilitate Agile workshops and team working using Lucidspark virtual whiteboards. With so many of us working remotely, tools such as these are really coming into their own. Watch the talk in full or […] Read more »