Product Development Formats That Survive Contact with Reality - Roadmap… The right visual strategy for a convincing roadmap: what to avoid, what works, and what constraints you should use.
Product Development What does a good product MVP look like and what doesn’t? Examples of Real Product MVPs Without Survivorship Bias – What Made the Famous Ones Work, What They Failed At, And What Structure Holds Together.
Product Development Basic principles of product management in one concise guide. A PM 101 without the certification syllabus: what PMs actually do every day, the four habits that compound, and what you shouldn’t bother learning.
Tooling What to actually want from a product development platform? No vendor pitch on these platform products? Here are the 4 capabilities that earn their keep, what to ignore, and when one platform beats a stack of…
Project Management How to Evaluate an IT Project Management Company? Selecting an IT project management company without the brochure: five things that make the quality, the red flags, and when to not hire one.
Product Development The plain truth about a product marketing job. Learn more about the four jobs owned by Product Marketing Management as well as the difference from product management, brand marketing and when it’s not…
Project Management Software project planning - version one page. An overview of software project planning including a 30-page template. The seven decisions every plan must make. The format that gets used. What to skip.
Tooling The stack that actually ships software engineering tools. Every team needs six software engineering tools, plus the ones that look essential but are not.
Project Management A useful definition of what a software project is. A software project is any project that is not a product, but has the following five things in addition to what makes it a project.
Project Management First Draft of Software Development Project Management Plan If your plan isn’t changing every two weeks, your plan is wrong. Learn about the 7 sections a software project plan actually needs and the 6 it doesn’t.
Product Development The five stages of product management workflow that endure. A practical yet non-theatrical framework for product management: five steps that might repeat, a decision that compounds, and perhaps how not to…
Agile Making a minimally viable product in agile fits in. Integration patterns that work for MVP plus agile, the hand-off problem most teams hit, and when the sprint cadence works against the MVP framing.
Project Management Managing the project for a website development – what ships Two stakeholders kill more website efforts than missed deadlines. Discovery, scope, iteration, four phases.
Product Development MVP Project Management: The Disciplines That Survive Launch MVP project management without the textbook framing: what are the four disciplines that hold an MVP build together, when to cut, and when the MVP framing…
Product Development A working definition of an MVP for software teams. We will discuss what an MVP is and isn’t. The 4 kinds of MVPs. How to ship one without getting stuck in just-one-more-feature-for-six-months hell.
Project Management Software Testing Life Cycle What to Do and What to Skip The testing life cycle comprises six stages. In this post, we explore each of the STLC phases in detail and explain what each does.