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Jan 16

On Product Strategy

Product Strategy is one of the most disputed topics. I see many strategies in product organizations that are not a strategy but not more than feature lists or goals without any clear reasoning behind them. So let’s look at what defines a good strategy and what’s essential to implement it. …

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On Product Strategy
On Product Strategy

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Bootcamp

·Jan 21, 2022

What product managers can learn from designers

Design is not just about a visual result. Many methods are involved in getting this visual result, and product managers can learn a thing or two from the designer’s mindset. — Switching from a design role to a product management role is not that common as far as I can tell. For me, the switch came as a surprise, but at the same time naturally. I often felt limited in a design role, because regularly in teams, design was an afterthought…

Design

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What product managers can learn from designers
What product managers can learn from designers
Design

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Serious Scrum

·Aug 2, 2021

Iteration + Increment ≠ Improvement

I sometimes see Scrum-(flavored)-teams that iteratively produce incremental work and expect that improvement is the result. But I think improvement is not automatically a given from this way of working. — First of all, let’s talk about what I mean when I’m talking about increment, iteration, and improvement. And even more important is how the Scrum guide talks about these terms. Increment The Increment is in the core of Scrum as one of the Scrum Artifacts. The Scrum guide mentions the increment…

Scrum

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Iteration ≠ Increment
Iteration ≠ Increment
Scrum

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·Jun 16, 2021

Collaborating designers design better and happier

Original illustration by Vijay Verma from Ouch! Designers should collaborate, not just with presentations and critique, but with proper collaboration methods. I will describe some proven methods here. When working with different design teams, I see a repetitive pattern. They work alone in isolation and just get together to present…

Collaboration

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Collaborating designers design better and happier
Collaborating designers design better and happier
Collaboration

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Bootcamp

·May 24, 2021

Service blueprints are a management tool

Service Blueprints are nowadays an established tool used by designers. But I would like to argue, that their real power develops as a tool for management. — The inventor of the Service Blueprint G. Lynn Shostack wrote in her Harvard Business Review article: Such a blueprint gives managers a context within which to deal with the management and control of the process. But today we usually see (Service-/Strategic-/UX-/Product-/Younameit-) Designers using Service Blueprints as a powerful method to…

Service Blueprint

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Service blueprints are a management tool
Service blueprints are a management tool
Service Blueprint

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Christoph Steinlehner

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