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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

 (I mostly see this proposed by technical leaders who come from non-revenue development organizations – those building software for internal use by companies in another business such as banking or airlines). There’s no rigorous testing.  Unlike  We’ve gotten out of our own way.

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m I’m ignoring deep tech and foundational AI research companies, for the sake of this conversation). Who wants to buy ads against the same audiences as major credit card or airlines?

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Product in Practice: Adopting the Discovery Habits is An Iterative Process

Product Talk

The idea was that her trio would test out the concepts from Continuous Discovery Habits and then guide the broader product organization at Going to adopt the habits. Next, their tech lead created some lo-fi mockups in FigJam. They used customer interviews and prototype testing to understand this risk. .

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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

Her continuous discovery journey hasn’t just been about interviewing customers or prototyping to test assumptions. Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Tweet This. Lisa Orr understands this all too well.

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Your Ultimate Guide to Agile Transformation

Agile Velocity

Start with pilot projects or teams to test Agile practices, gather feedback, and iterate based on learnings before scaling across the organization. Regularly Review and Adjust : Regularly review and adjust metrics based on changing business needs, lessons learned, and feedback from stakeholders.

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

Meanwhile, the market offers turnkey development and implementation for just about any technological solution. In these cases, the bank builds a test environment and populates it with the data necessary for the function. combined with carefully carried out due diligence?—?can can set a bank apart from its competitors”?—?

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Let’s Abandon Customers and Users

Mironov Consulting

Especially in B2C or B2B2C markets where our tech is part of a long value chain: perhaps our software helps some employee collect data to tune a service that improves delivery of some consumer product… Creating real-world value is a multi-step process involving many players. Bonus points for clarity. A Personal Sore Point. <soapbox>