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Author Q&A on the Book The Innovation Revelation

David Lowe has written the book The Innovation Revelation: A story about satisfying customer needs. The book tells the fictional story of Charlie Blades who is a manager in the IT department of a retail company in London, faced with disruption from outside and old ways of working inside. The story explores how changes in workplace culture and practices can result in better outcomes.

David Lowe Shane Hastie
on Jan 25, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Designing the Future

The book Designing the Future by James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker shows how companies are using Lean Product and Process Development to create new products and services and become innovative. It explores how to get the most from LPPD by developing a system of people, process and the right tools at the right time.

Ben Linders Jeffrey Liker James Morgan
on Mar 26, 2019
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A on the Book Product Takeoff

In their book Product Liftoff Kamal and Nav explore through examples, stories and practical exercises what it takes to bring a new product from concept to launch, and beyond. They provide tools and techniques that teams and individuals can use to help guide product development and ensure they are solving the right problem, building the right product which addresses real customer needs.

Navjot (Nav) Singh Kamal Manglani Shane Hastie
on Feb 03, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Future Ethics

In the book Future Ethics, Cennydd Bowles explores the role ethics play in the tech industry and in the work of product managers, designers, and engineers. The book provides guidance on how to think and act ethically when designing products.

Ben Linders Cennydd Bowles
on Jan 18, 2019
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A on the Book Project to Product by Mik Kersten

Mik Kersten has published a book, Project to Product, in which he describes a framework for delivering products in the age of software. Drawing on research and experience with many organisations across a wide range of industries, he presents the Flow Framework™ as a way for organisations to adapt their product delivery to the speed of the market.

Shane Hastie Mik Kersten
on Dec 16, 2018
Culture & Methods

Applying Agile for Developing Industrial Machinery

This is the story of a company developing industrial machinery products that became an organization with cross-functional teams using agile. Most important to their success are the people, from the new roles of product owner and scrum master, adapted to the industrial context, to the development teams that are learning self-organization, and the stakeholders involved in supporting the teams.

Claudio Saurin
on Dec 10, 2018
Culture & Methods

Is Your Product Roadmap Still Meeting Customer Needs?

It’s difficult to overestimate the importance of having a strong vision for the product. However, that vision must be frequently and consistently kept in line with the needs of the customer. In this article, Justin explores how to tell if your product roadmap still meets your customers' needs.

Justin Zalewski
on Jun 10, 2018
Culture & Methods

Transforming from Projects to Products

Agile Transformation is much harder than most organisations envisage, and can require a major cultural change for the transformation to be effective. Too often we make superficial changes but continue the same behaviour with minor changes to processes to appear agile. But without a change in mindset we fail to see the true impact an Agile Transformation can really have.

John Yorke
on Jul 01, 2017
Culture & Methods

Product Development in Distributed Teams

This article focuses on how to do product development in distributed teams. It shares some virtues and practices which help to minimize challenges and develop the right product. It covers tools to help overcome challenges due to distribution and foster good behaviours. It explains how to perform various product oriented activities like user research, story mapping, planning and refinements.

Hugo Messer Savita Pahuja
on Apr 06, 2017
Architecture & Design

Continuous Delivery Coding Patterns: Latent-to-Live Code & Forward Compatible Interim Versions

This article describes two novel practices for continuous delivery: Latent-to-live code pattern and Forward compatible interim versions. You can use these practices to simultaneously increase speed and reliability of software development and reduce risks. These practices are built on top of two other essential continuous delivery practices: trunk-based-development and feature toggles.

Luca Minudel
on Sep 02, 2016
DevOps

DevOps & Product Teams - Win or Fail?

Peter Neumark found a new world when he moved from a DevOps infrastructure team to a Lean product team.How to experiment frequently while keeping operational performance? Platform teams to the rescue!

Peter Neumark
on Jun 29, 2015
#NoEstimates Project Planning Using Monte Carlo Simulation

Customers come to us with a new product idea and they always ask the questions - how long will it take and how much will it cost us to deliver? Reality is uncertain, yet we as software developers are expected to deliver new products with certainty. This article shows how to do planning using reference class forecasting with the #NoEstimates paradigm which promises more accuracy in forecasts.

Dimitar Bakardzhiev
on Dec 01, 2014