Part of creating a usable product is expressing the character of your brand through the user experience (both interaction and visual design). It includes the tone and voice of the text, the atmosphere conveyed through the use …
Part of creating a usable product is expressing the character of your brand through the user experience (both interaction and visual design). It includes the tone and voice of the text, the atmosphere conveyed through the use …
It’s your first day at your new job. You show up ready to conquer the world. You meet all the new people, get all the paperwork done and sit down at your new desk for the first …
The Realtracs’ product development team applies the seven Lean principles to our software processes. These principles – based on the Toyota Production System and adapted for software by Mary and Tom Poppendieck in Lean Software Development – …
Most of us spend as many waking hours with our co-workers as we do our own spouses. Yet we are far more careful about the character and compatibility of a spouse than we are coworkers. Why is …
Deprecating the oldest part of the product – a part users have known and used for two decades – can be intimidating even when you have a brilliant team, and the benefits are clear. Did you know …
Many engineering teams spend a lot of time building software to meet business needs, but not enough time trying to understand the business itself. Teams quickly start projects and rush to meet requirements. Early successes are quickly …
For those who work in product development, it seems we can never move fast enough. There is always another feature to build, problem to solve, or opportunity to exploit. If you feel like you can’t keep up, …
More often than not, our micro service architecture stops at the API layer. We meticulously build our backend architecture to align with our problem domains, ensure we don’t have data contagion, and pat ourselves on the back …
Getting customer feedback quickly is vital to the success of any development team. The days of spending months building features before the customer sees the product is a thing of the past. The waterfall has long since …
Part of a product manager’s job is to study the problems presented to us – to learn about them from every angle – to make informed decisions. We need to understand the history of the problem, identify …
