The Design Process is a Trap - Adil Majid
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The Design Process is a Trap - Adil Majid
For too long, product teams have defined their work as shipping the next release. When we engage with stakeholders, we talk about our roadmaps and our backlogs. During our performance reviews, we highlight all the great features we implemented. The vast majority of our conversations take place in the solution space. We assume that success comes fro
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meet countless teams that claim to be following Lean principles; yet, they work for months on what they call an MVP, and they really don't know what they have and whether it will sell until they've spent substantial time and money—hardly in the spirit of Lean. Or they go way overboard and think they have to test and validate everything, so they go
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Design-by-committee is a real risk for a software company. It's so hard to build software, because you can literally build anything, there are infinite possibilities, so you have to have a really coherent design and product vision. I really don't think you can distribute that to thousands of people, so we have to figure out where in the system that... See more
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People ask me about processes all the time. Planning processes, performance review processes, OKRs, et cetera. I think it’s because I was once a COO and people have this vision of COOs as process fiends. People who make the trains run on time. People with lots of Gantt charts all around them. I have nothing against process.1 But I think start... See more