Category: Lean UX

  • Lean UX in the Enterprise

    I’ve spent the past 5 years speaking, teaching, coaching and working with teams aspiring to bring a customer-centric point of…

  • Agile is not a substitution for vision

      In his blog post from 2011, Mike Cottmeyer, an agile consultant and coach, listed off the 13 most common…

  • The biggest mistake in product discovery: missing the value

    In 2010 we visited Ireland for the first time. My wife and I made Galway our first stop. This was…

  • Agile doesn’t have a brain

      My friend Bill Scott once said at a conference, “Agile doesn’t have a brain.” What he meant by that…

  • Clients don’t want to buy experiments

    When Josh Seiden, Giff Constable and I first launched Proof (now Neo NYC) we had a vision for a studio…

  • Do you really have executive buy-in?

    Seven years ago I moved back to the East Coast and took a job at an agency. Before accepting my…

  • I have no idea what I’m doing

    The difference between successful teams and leaders and those less so boils down to humility. Specifically, it’s being humble enough…

  • Quantity trumps quality (at first)

    I found the following excerpt on Derek Siver’s blog. It’s from a book called Art and Fear: The ceramics teacher…

  • Democratize creativity

    In the industrial-era model of managing a company creativity was reserved for the executive suite. Only leaders and managers were…

  • Agile coaches, I am your friend

    I spend a lot of time consulting with large organizations grappling with making Agile work as an engineering practice and…