Velocity is not the only measure we should care about.
August 16, 2015
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2 min. to read
Thought experiment: clean code is one of the least important things for a company.
June 16, 2015
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2 min. to read
Make your users better or remove pain that they face.
October 25, 2014
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1 min. to read
Use the Net Promoter Score to measure pride in your products and organisation
October 14, 2014
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3 min. to read
Want to buy merch for your startup? Buy the best gear you can afford.
October 13, 2014
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2 min. to read
Blindly using agile tools doesn't make you automatically agile.
October 12, 2014
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3 min. to read
Don't just copy what Google does unless you're willing to commit Google-sized resources as well.
October 10, 2014
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3 min. to read
A talk by Marty Cagan at Etsy's Code as Craft in Brooklyn.
July 15, 2014
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17 min. to read
Innovate to reduce complexity.
June 3, 2014
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7 min. to read
Great teams practice kaizen.
May 13, 2014
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2 min. to read
What does passing QA actually mean?
May 12, 2014
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1 min. to read
Being a code craftsman means writing automated testing.
May 11, 2014
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2 min. to read
Don't write giant documents before you start testing. Start testing and capture your documentation in the right way.
February 26, 2014
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5 min. to read
Testing needs to change to link together with design, both through continuous design and continuous integration.
February 20, 2014
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5 min. to read
Discovering your customer's true motivation for choosing your product.
February 9, 2013
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2 min. to read
Don't estimate a feature as having no (zero) points. Everything has value, effort and complexity.
January 31, 2013
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3 min. to read
Don't just adopt the terms of lean. Adopt the practices.
December 14, 2012
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4 min. to read
In which I analyse the strange way that carry-on luggage is stored on airplanes, and try to come up with some different solutions.
October 23, 2012
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5 min. to read
Great product development should focus on solving a single problem that your customer(s) have and solving it completely. Have a laser focus on what you want to achieve and be really nitpicky. Polish that one thing until it's seamless.
August 3, 2012
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6 min. to read
My notes from the amazing One More Thing 2012 conference - an iOS and mobile business/design conference in Melbourne.
July 27, 2012
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17 min. to read
The best way to do product development is fix one problem and fix it completely. Ship that. Then fix another problem.
July 8, 2012
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1 min. to read
How Skype introducing Conversation Ads will kill the Skype platform. Also, how to remove Conversation Ads.
June 15, 2012
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5 min. to read
Just because you're a big company doesn't mean you can get away with building poor quality products. Fast and nimble competitors will deliver higher quality products and destroy your existing market dominance.
March 21, 2012
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2 min. to read
Modern Warfare 3 is a great example of a launch-date failure that really failed to meet customers and gamers needs.
November 19, 2011
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4 min. to read