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The 5 Most Lethal Mistakes in Product Development

BrainMates

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Failure Point #4 – Poor design & execution. To that, I say unequivocally NO !

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Top 10 Product Insights You Should Have Read in 2017

Mind the Product

Rik Higham argues that we should ditch MVPs and focus on testing assumptions. Long live Riskiest Assumption Tests. Development might be faster, but that has no bearing on making the right product decisions, and working to realize real benefits. Long live the RAT. HACKER NOON]. Product Manager vs Product Owner. HACKERNOON].

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Top 10 Product Guest Posts of 2017

Mind the Product

Design Thinking is how we explore and solve problems; Lean is our framework for testing our beliefs and learning our way to the right outcomes; and Agile is how we adapt to changing conditions with software. Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Netflix Abstracts the Team out of Product Design.

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Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Ask the Community: What’s a Mistake You Made Early in Your Continuous Discovery Journey?

Product Talk

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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What we Learned at Mind the Product London 2017

Mind the Product

I believe that to be successful we need to work across disciplines and make sure that everyone in the team owns the product together. The process is based around Research, Design, Prototype and Testing, but it also needs a focus – what Blade calls a “centreline experience”. Quality Design. Being Human. Space Shapes Culture.

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How QA Testing is Moving Up in Today’s Agile Value Chain

Usersnap

In the past, the core goal of testing is to find bugs and fix them. But the dynamics of IT and testing landscape have changed now. Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. Testing is changing, how are you adapting?