This short video explains how to use the Lean UX canvas.
The Work
Posted on June 14, 2021.There’s so much more to product development than writing code. Here is what The Work consists of and why you should make time to do it.
“Intuitive UI” is not a feature
Posted on April 26, 2021.Do the work to define what will make your user interfaces and experiences, intuitive, compelling and successful.
Humility is the key to agile culture
Posted on April 12, 2021.Humility is the key to leading and building agile teams and organizations. Here’s why.
Selling underwear: How developers learned to love talking to customers
Posted on April 5, 2021.Not everyone wants to do product discovery but everybody should. Here's a story about one way I convinced a group of reluctant developers to meet their users.
Do OKRs work with Jobs to Be Done?
Posted on March 15, 2021.Do OKRs work with jobs to be done? They do. Here's how.
Constraints are the hidden source of innovation
Posted on January 18, 2021.There are always excuses for why our teams can’t innovate or be agile. Constraints shouldn’t be one of them. In fact, they can be the source of these desired qualities. Here’s why.
Racing for the bronze: how to redefine goals for agile teams
Posted on November 9, 2020.If your team is struggling to deliver top-notch work, you'll need to revisit your definition of done.
Optimize your process for decision-making, not dogma
Posted on October 19, 2020.Just because it's part of The Process doesn't mean it's the best way to do things. Earlier this year I held a webinar panel with Sense & Respond Press author Randy Silver about his new book, What do we do now?. On that panel was my former colleague Selena Hadzibabic who, today, is the vice … Continue reading Optimize your process for decision-making, not dogma
There are infinite ways to solve your business problems. Which one is right?
Posted on September 14, 2020.The team works for multiple weeks, sometimes months. And we launch, fingers crossed, looking daily (sometimes hourly) to see if our predictions were correct. But the customers don’t come at the level we predicted, and the numbers don’t move quite in the directions we’d hoped.