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Moxie on Murder

Crafty CTO

Moxie’s a legend in tech as creator of the Signal secure messaging app —and more importantly to cryptographers, the Signal Protocol and Double Ratchet Algorithm —and when I saw his name I immediately was looking for “technical advisor” credits. But no, this was actually CO-STARRING.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. These (of course) don’t exist yet, since we’re still concept-testing problem statements and feature/function and technical requirements. Do early technical trials change our scope or identify missing capabilities?

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“Build What Matters” Framework for Startups

The Product Coalition

The important attributes can be- Feature details (high level) with a clear set of outcomes Associated risk: Technical, financial, social, compliance, etc Success measures: Lead only (refer to success measure section) Defined cadence Tricks/tactics: Make data the backbone of the startup for all dimensions.

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How to Write App Development Request For Proposals (RFP) Correctly

The Product Coalition

And, you know, sometimes such a request is better than a 75-pages technical requirement. Technical Requirements aren’t must-have Sometimes we receive app development RFPs with 40+ pages of detailed requirements for literally everything: ergonomics, technical aesthetics, data protection, etc. There were no other details.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

Often referred to as “mini-CEOs” of a product, these specialists must possess a wide variety of skills and competencies to propel a product to success. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Technical Skills for Product Management. A question that comes up often among would-be Product Managers is: “how technical do I have to be?”.

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Product Discovery at Scale

The Product Coalition

These methods are often referred to as design artefacts and they include activities such as problem definition, prototyping, customer interviews, exploration and many more. Challenge definition A challenge could be responding to customer feedback, introducing a proposition, or overcoming a technical problem.

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Design Handoff Guide: Design To Development Without Headaches

UX Studio

So, in this article, “design handoff / handover” refers to the point when designers need to transfer their ideas for development. Since design handoff refers to the end of a phase, the mistake of concentrating on only the best-practices about uploading, exporting and specifying designs comes easy (which I will mostly do).