4 Reasons You’re Missing Product Deadlines
Even with solid planning at project kick-off, experienced project teams with the necessary talent, and seemingly reasonable launch goals, many products still miss delivery deadlines. While this is a reality that’s more common than teams and stakeholders would like, there are steps that can effectively...
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...
The Importance of Flexibility in Agile Development
The project management triangle is comprised of three project constraints or boundaries: time, scope, and cost. The best product companies understand that flexibility is often required on at least one of these boundaries. As needs and objectives evolve, knowing which boundary is flexible lets you...
Deliver Quickly, Deliver Often: Why App Submission is Only The Beginning
Shipping a product is a big benchmark, but initial release is just the beginning. Expecting an app to perform well, drive downloads, and have sustained usage without working to improve the product is a mistake that is all-too-common. The “publish and pray” approach has two major...
Building for Long-Term Success: The Principles of Sustainable App Development
A major challenge in product development is creating an app that is built with longevity in mind. With OS updates, changing market conditions, and continually increasing competition, many apps become irrelevant quickly – it’s a reality of the industry. // While there is no manual for future-proofing...
The Benefits of Squad-Based Agile Development
At Clearbridge, we use a custom agile process that allows us to deliver great products with low risk and predictable project velocity. Part of what makes this process so effective is the use of squads. Squads – a concept inspired by Spotify’s engineering culture –...
Low Risk, High Predictability: Why We Created Our Custom Agile Process
Successful products are born from more than just strong technical and design capabilities. You can build a product with great functionality and beautiful design, but that product could have gone over budget, been released late, and gone beyond scope. That’s why process is equally, if...
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 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 Determine Timeframe & Scope in Agile Development
In agile mobile app development, building a product is a collaborative, integrated process. Unlike the waterfall approach, it is not a pass off. For the majority of the project, 80% of the team will be involved throughout. The custom agile app development process typically involves 5...