INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)

In strong teams, product, design, and engineering work side by side, in a give‐and‐take way,

The idea is for the developer to write just enough code to be able to address the feasibility risk.

Just because we've invested the time and effort to create a robust product does not mean anyone will want to buy it. So, in the product world, we strive to achieve product/market fit.

The discovery activities help us determine the necessary product, but it is delivery that actually does the work necessary to build, test, and release the product.

Mercenaries build whatever they're told to build. Missionaries are true believers in the vision and are committed to solving problems for their customers.

These are two‐dimensional maps, in which major user activities are arrayed along the horizontal dimension, loosely ordered by time from left to right.

more often than not, our initial solutions don't solve the problem—at least not in a way that can power a successful business.

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product,

One practical test of whether a person is considered a stakeholder is whether or not they have veto power, or can otherwise prevent your work from launching.

Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where Netflix's queue, ratings system, and recommendation engine all came from.