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The Death of Product Development as We Know it
Questions for readers: Can your teams run experiments and achieve customer outcomes independently, or are they dependent on other teams in order to get anything done? Can you deploy pieces of your system independently of each other, or must you release everything at once? What is the smallest possible amount of work you could do to enable either ex
... See moreJoanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
The product management team had an allergic reaction to prioritizing potentially good features above features that might hypothetically beat BladeLogic. They would say, “How can we walk away from requirements that we know to be true to pursue something that we think will help?” It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figurin
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Most teams in business work to create a defined output. But
Josh Seiden • Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
if the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) gains traction, then the company will likely receive funding and a growth period will occur. Invariably, that means more people will join the team and the vision from the initial engineer needs to be shared.
Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning o... See more
Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning o... See more
Evolution of Monolithic Systems
With the speed of change only on the rise, it puts more pressure than ever on an enterprise organization’s ability to innovate, build great products, and disrupt itself before a competitor does.