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The Cost Will Reveal Itself Once the Complexity is Understood

July 18, 2019 August 18, 2019Product Ownership 0

My wife texted me the other day and asked me a question about whether a project for the home was expensive or complex? My response was an off handed comment that “The cost will reveal itself once the complexity is understood.” Since you don’t know everything up front, you can’t…

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The Frustration & Astonishment Factor.

June 20, 2018 June 20, 2018Product Ownership 0

Your favorite song comes on the radio while you’re driving. You know the one. The one single song in all of music that makes everything seem ok. You reach down and crank it up. And to your surprise, your transmission is 200 feet behind you. This is one example of…

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As a Product Owner, I don’t know what questions to ask.

January 10, 2018 July 13, 2018Product Ownership 0

I don’t know exactly where the conversation is going when I speak with stakeholders. I have a general feel but their responses could take us in an entirely new direction that we never thought to explore. I usually start with “what drives your business” or “what makes people want to…

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F2FWTC™

November 9, 2017 November 9, 2017Innovation, Product Ownership 0

Face to Face With the Customer. You can send out as many surveys as you want but you’ll never understand the aggravation your user community is feeling until you’re sitting across from them while they struggle to use your software.

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What an MVP is, and is not.

November 1, 2017 November 1, 2017Product Ownership 0

Let’s start off with what an MVP is not – it’s not the least amount of stuff that can be done in the sprint. What it is intended to be is a learning tool, you’re supposed to be validating your hypothesis (or hypotheses) with an MVP. If you’re not validating…

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Some of the best product advice I ever got.

September 22, 2017 September 22, 2017Product Ownership 0

I was fortunate to listen first-hand to Steve Blank explain, in no uncertain terms, that if he ever found his Marketing team in the office again, he’d fire them. Because the answers aren’t in the office, they’re “out there”. So go “out there” and find the answers. So many times…

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From Concept to Launch, Own the Results.

August 21, 2017 September 22, 2017Product Ownership 0

One of the best lessons of product ownership I ever got was from a CEO who asked me “How did this get away from you?” My response was “Well, Marketing took it over…” He lost his shit over that response, and rightly so. The initial intent of the product got…

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Product: It’s difficult and time consuming.

August 11, 2017 September 14, 2017Product Ownership 0

Building a solid product, or even building a solid product team, takes time. If you’re responsible for a product and you don’t understand this, it’s going to be a difficult time for both you and the team. Here’s an analogy. Races aren’t won on race day. They’re won or lost…

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    Planned books:

    • The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle
    • The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits

    Current books:

    • Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer)

      Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith

    • Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation

      Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation by Phil McKinney

    Recent books:

    • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
    • Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
    • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell
    • Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than your by Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone, Yuri van Geest
    • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

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