Category: Blog
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Bloatware is a law of nature. Understanding it can help you avoid it
Today software can be churned out with an impressive speed, but few have stopped to ask the question of whether all the features they build were really necessary in the first place. Lean start up, Agile, Dev-Ops, automated testing etc. are frameworks that have made it possible to develop quality software at impressive speeds. Are all the…
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is the Apple watch a Telegraph?
The coming of the Apple is the buzz of the moment. Apple is the champion of making things simpler, but have they gone too far with the apple watch and made it too simple. One click bonanza The received wisdom in new product development is that you should take out steps, and continually simplify the…
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Product Management Maturity And Tool Support
A recent report on product management tools by Sirius Decisions has revealed that 50% of Product Managers are looking for product management specific tools. There are a number of dedicated product management tools, such as those surveyed by Sirius Decisions, yet when you ask product managers only 13% seem to use such tools. What can be…
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When Choice Is A Bad Thing – The Marginal Utility of Choice
Being able to choose between different options is a good thing for the user! right? but when you can choose between 65 different kinds of blue, 1122 different fonts and whether a display should only work on Sundays between 11 and 12 for a special group, giving MORE choices to users start to be not so good or, to put it bluntly:…
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A Practical Guide To Doing Cost Of Delay Based Prioritisation
It is often very difficult to prioritise what to build and when. One of the most efficient methods of prioritising features is prioritising according to cost of delay. Originally invented by Don Reinertsen in “Managing the Design Factory” as a new way of looking at how to build stuff, it has inspired many agile teams to…
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From the Super Bowl to Super Products
Later this evening Super Bowl XLIX is played. One of the teams playing has reached it more frequently than any other team in recent decades. The Patriots are a remarkable team, that we could learn a lot from about product development and winning against the competition in a highly competitive market (disclaimer – I always…
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Product Idea Triage
When I was training to become a fire fighter in my younger days, we also had training in wartime disaster relief. This is where you learn how to set up emergency hospitals in tents and rescue injured people from collapsed and collapsing buildings while everything is on fire around you in the middle of a…
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What is a successful product?
Every company wants to be a success. One key ingredient in that is successful products. A successful product will look different to different companies, but usually it can be tracked by KPIs. For any business it is very important to find the right KPI and be wary of so called vanity metrics. What’s your “On…
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The dark side of addictive products
Are products such as Facebook, Snapchat and Flappy birds just benign habits or are they crack grade maliscious addictions? When does product “stickiness” turn from a simple habit into an actual addiction? As anyone my age growing up, Star Wars was a huge influence on my world view. I was againstof the dark side and…
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Product Roadmaps – Comet Landings or Soccer Games?
A product roadmap is a plan, but a plan can be many things. At one extreme you have the kind of planning that just brought Philae to the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenk where everything is calculated down to the smallest detail. At the other end is the plan for a soccer game, where you may not even…
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