Here are excerpts from this article that discusses two types of technical debt
“The first kind of technical debt is the kind that is incurred unintentionally. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor [...]
Here is a quote from Getting to Plan B, “The research on new product success and failure indicates that it takes fifty-eight new product ideas to deliver a single successful new product.” I’m reading this book from by John Mullins and Randy Komisar and find it interesting so far. The fundamental premise of the book [...]
Another great post from Tyner Blain, this time on SEO Product Management. While many consider SEO to be some variant of Voodoo, Scott provides a good foundation on SEO with a Product Management perspective.
Inc Magazine has an article on ‘Lean Product Development’, an emerging business philosophy that has recently gained a lot of momentum. Applying lean concepts to product management is the latest in the application of lean manufacturing to software development over the last few years.
While a Lean Product Development, evangelized by Eric Ries and Steve Blank, [...]
If you haven’t been reading Steve Blank’s Blog you are missing out on some of the best entrepreneurial gold around and his recent series of posts on the Customer Development Manifesto are a great place to start
In product development you can generally find a number of ways to solve a problem but the right solution depends on successfully defining the problem and hopefully not deriving it from a solution. In web systems development its especially easy to have our armchair ‘experts’ help define solutions before trying to define the problem.
We use [...]
Great quote from Steve Blank “Startups were not just smaller versions of a large company, they were about invention, innovation and iteration – of business model, product, customers and on and on. Startups were doing discovery of the problem and solution in real-time.”
Make it the present tense and that’s what we do daily.
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From Implementing Lean Software Development, “Development is the process of transforming ideas into products. There are two schools of thought about how to go about this transformation. We might call one the deterministic school of thought and the second the empirical school of thought. The deterministic school starts by creating a complete product definition, [...]
Check out the latest issue of Giving City Magazine. It is a great example of a talented start-up team making the most of the PDF as a magazine format. Two very talented people Monica Maldonado Williams and Torquil Dewar have put together a great magazine around philanthropy and community participation. Check it out here.
