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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

What is Bad Performance? Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog.

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Leveraging Software Platforms

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates.

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Ten UX/UI Design Challenges That Can Compromise Financial Apps

The Product Coalition

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Do Your Clients Need to Develop Software At All?

The Product Coalition

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience. You should therefore review and adapt the roadmap on a regular basis. 7 The Roadmap is Speculative.

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What Are Customer Touchpoints and How To Identify Them? [Examples Included]

Userpilot

Customer touchpoints are all customer interactions with your brand — direct and indirect. It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Every customer touchpoint factors into brand perception and, therefore, impacts revenue so it’s critical to track them.

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Stop Saying Nothing: How to Write Copy for Your Software Company

Business of Software Conference

Software, to the average person, is pretty boring. How to Write Copy for Your Software Company 1. Search Amazon for customer reviews on industry-related products or books. One study tested how bottled water brands can use personality in their branding to improve consumer brand recognition and preference.