Category: Productivity
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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…
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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…
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7 Steps to Giving the Best Presentation of Your Life
I give a lot of talks. I’d like to think I’m pretty good at it at this point. But…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It’s not enough to build a culture your teams can “live with”
I suffer from a chronic condition. It’s nothing life-threatening and I am lucky that I have a relatively mild form…
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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…
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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…