Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

Agile 150

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

Feedback Software 148

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Atomic Spin PM

JULY 10, 2019

This excellent metaphor comes from Jim Price’s talk about good and bad lessons learned from Silicon Valley at the recent Positive Business Conference. Understanding what a project will cost is an important factor when embarking on custom software development. Have we load-tested the software?

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software User Testing Weak Development Team Customer Feedback 52

Atomic Spin PM

JULY 10, 2019

This excellent metaphor comes from Jim Price’s talk about good and bad lessons learned from Silicon Valley at the recent Positive Business Conference. Understanding what a project will cost is an important factor when embarking on custom software development. Have we load-tested the software?

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software User Testing Weak Development Team Customer Feedback 52

Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. out of 5 stars.

Books 98

Books Research Software Feedback Software Analytic Tools 98

Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

I remember sitting down with the designer at the time saying, please tell me what the difference is between a graphic designer and a software developer. Because the other part is standing up and talking to the team. You’ve got some of the basics in place and it’s time to sit down with the team.

Feedback Software 80

Feedback Software Research Software Weak Development Team Product Research 80

The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Abandoning yesterday’s game?—?and Nice try #1.)

Reporting Tools 78

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Product Research Systems Review 78

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. The Development Team, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders need to figure out whether they are still on track delivering value to customers. An alignment?—?did

Software Review 60

Software Review Weak Development Team Customer Experience User Testing 60

The Product Coalition

MAY 20, 2020

Example: Project manager prepares a project utilization report Delivery manager at a bespoke software development company prepares a report of how many man-days have been utilized on a project for a given client. Custom development of a bespoke reporting tool 2. Try a little exercise, before we move on.

Reporting Tools 89

Reporting Tools Customer Feedback Data Visualization Customer Experience 89

Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Joining the Modus Create Team. As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation.

Software Engineering 91

Software Engineering Software Review Engineering Technical Review 91

Modus Create

JULY 11, 2019

People with strong personalities habitually play devil’s advocate — a habit which, on its own, is actually not bad. Again, the ability to rally a team around a common goal is a great quality in a leader. Instead, find some truth in what he or she is saying, even if you or the team don’t agree with all of it.

User Testing 72

User Testing Feedback Software Weak Development Team Leadership 72

Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. Back in 2011, Luke Hohmann introduced me to this concept and technique, and I used it with success with a team I was working with at the time. Thanks, Luke!

Weak Development Team 53

Weak Development Team Differentiation Software Review Customer Experience 53

The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2020

Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. the pitfalls any distributed team wants to avoid to become successful. TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns?—?Pitfalls

Agile 78

Agile Weak Development Team Events Technology 78

The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

In most cases, what you decide to build starts off as an idea that someone on the team had. When teams try to get market validation on their idea, the validation often tends to be biased. It sounds like good logic, but there are multiple challenges with building an MVP: Most teams over-engineer their MVP. This is natural.

Startups 68

Startups Customer Experience User Testing Feedback Software 68

Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

Social engineering is a threat because it is a way for criminals and bad actors to access sensitive information by tricking people into revealing it. Poor Cyber Hygiene. Poor cyber hygiene is a threat because it leads to increased vulnerability to cyberattacks, as well as decreased efficiency and productivity. Cyber Extortion.

Reporting Tools 52

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Weak Development Team Software Review 52

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. Complex deals, complex problems.

Data Visualization 147

Data Visualization Framework Agile Weak Development Team 147

Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF.

Agile 52

Agile Weak Development Team Customer Experience User Testing 52

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

Reporting Tools 183

Reporting Tools Transportation Travel Data Visualization 183

Modus Create

JUNE 29, 2020

By creating CoEs we are taking the best of our values and making a structured program that help our teams to: Consolidate the knowledge and best practices they already have. Modus CoE’s don’t promote a specific technology – they help our teams grow their leadership competencies, collaboration abilities, and communication skills.

Research Software 89

Research Software Weak Development Team Technical Review Customer Experience 89