Design Thinking
Design Thinking is an approach to or method for solving problems. There are five stages in the Design Thinking method: Empathize, Define (the problem), Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
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Rethinking The Product Line
/1 Comment/in Blog, PLaaSHow to Improve Your Product Line’s Performance A product line is a collection of related products. But let’s be clear. There’s only one reason to create and organize a set of products into a product line. It’s to boost their performance. Managing products as a line should deliver better results than when you manage the […]
Innovation Charters in Motion
/0 Comments/in Articles, Blog, JTBD, Product Line Strategy, Responsive RoadmappingAgile, Jobs-to-be-Done, and Product Line Strategy are in a significant struggle. Each tool drives superb product development results, but old-school gurus didn’t design them to work with one another. Instead, they push in different directions. The key to solving the challenge and reaping extraordinary gains is to employ a powerful toolset called Innovation Charters.
Agile Buy-in Problems
/0 Comments/in Articles, Blog, PLaaS, Product Line Strategy, Roadmapping, Transformation, WhitepapersAgilists blame backlashes against the methodology on top management’s unwillingness or inability to change. It’s leadership’s fault, not Agile’s. They didn’t embrace Lean-Agile Leadership. Really?
Jobs-to-be-Done – What Pioneers Get Wrong
/0 Comments/in Articles, Blog, JTBD“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.” — Wyatt Earp The market for getting the JTBD job done is like the Wild West. There are gunslingers and sheriffs, pioneers and hustlers. This isn’t about good guys and bad guys. Everyone want’s what’s best for JTBD and for themselves. But I use the Wild West metaphor […]
Innovation Charters In Motion
/0 Comments/in Blog, Product Line Strategy, RoadmappingUniting Agile, Strategy, and Jobs-to-be-Done There’s a tug-a-war going on across three interrelated topics. Each drives superb product development. Yet the three topics act independently. The Approaches The Agile approach is found in every corner of product development. Its first mission was to uncover a new way to develop software successfully. But following its success, […]
Agile and Strategy
/0 Comments/in Articles, BlogThe Need for Responsive Roadmapping Agile implementations have a big problem. When they bump up against an organization’s culture, progress can stop. It turns out, behaviors and practices can be a brick wall. To me, it’s humorous to hear experts say Agile’s full benefits accrue only from “transformative implementations.” They declare an organization, from top […]
Roadmapping the Roadmap
/1 Comment/in Articles, Blog, RoadmappingWhere is Roadmapping Taking Us? Roadmapping has been on quite a journey. Many managers use the term to describe planning and tracking projects. But they use different schemes to create roadmaps. And the results vary widely. There’s much to learn from roadmapping’s evolution. This is especially true for innovation management and product development in big […]
The Lexicon of Product Line Strategy
/0 Comments/in BlogNew Words and Business Knowledge Decades ago, most MBA curriculum followed the Harvard Business School approach. Each had a capstone course called Policy, taught in the classic Socratic method. Good professors fed students cases and then used leading questions to set up deep discussions. For many students like me, the discussions taught more than we’d […]
