Product Ideation: Building Innovation Into Your Development Process
Even in agile environments that encourage collaboration, product definition can become a siloed activity. In the day-to-day grind, with project teams focused on their particular tasks, the product owner bears the brunt of mapping out the product vision, often with little input from other members...
6 Common Product Strategy Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
Products fail for a variety of reasons. Poor UX, poor functionality, no real value, etc. But often, the failure of a product can be attributed to mistakes made during the product definition stage – prior to development even beginning. Here are a list of common...
The Benefits of Building A Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
What do highly successful apps like Uber, Instagram, and Snapchat have in common? They all started as something much simpler than they are today. They're mature apps, the result of years of development and large amounts of capital. Developing an app of this scope requires a lot...
The Project Management Triangle: How to Manage Constraints and Ship on Time
There are three constraints faced in every project: Scope, Time, and Cost. They are a part of every project and though they can be limiting, when properly managed they should not affect a successful project outcome. These are often characterized in the Project Management Triangle. Let’s...
How To Balance Product Ideas & Project Constraints
The goal of any project is to create an end product that offers something new and innovative. But as any product owner or project manager can attest to, the way we imagine end products needs to be weighed against the constraints of a project. Managing this...