In many areas around the world, billions of trees have been clear-cut in the last few decades, leaving soils exposed, depleted and incapable of supporting land-based or marine life. For example, in Madagascar, the vast mangrove coastal areas that once
Design Sprint agenda for 4-day sprints
The idea behind Design Sprints is to put together a team’s creative ideas around a specific problem during a limited time-frame. They are a great way to bring together methodologies from Design Thinking and Agile and ideate solutions in just
Using Buy-A-Feature to rank customer value on a set of features
Buy-A-Feature is a great tool to source interest from your end-users about a set of features, and understand how they make trade-offs between them. It’s effective at providing a high-level prioritization based on your customers’ preferences, perceived value, and expectations.
How Product Journey Maps can help planning your next MVP
A few months ago I was giving a speech on MVPs at an Agile conference and a developer approached me saying: “I wish I had known this a year ago!” He later explained that about a year before he had
An MVP is not a Beta release
Organizations often misunderstand an MVP as the bare minimum set of functionality to produce an intended result. They associate an MVP to a “Beta release” and focus their effort on stripping down their product to minimize the development time and
Icebreakers don’t work for me
We have all been invited to meetings that begin with an icebreaker. These icebreakers are used to quickly establish a social connection among participants and lower psychological barriers to working with each other. The Internet and the bookstores are full
Moo: not the usual business card
Business cards have been around for ages. They serve one main purpose, letting other people remember you. The usual experience is you make a design (or ask someone to make it for you), find a professional printer, and wait a
Workshop: Map the journey to MVP: Build your product with minimum effort
This interactive workshop explores several concepts and methodologies to help companies plan the development of a new product with minimum cost and risk. During this workshop participants learn how to identify an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and create a roadmap
Being Agile versus just doing Agile
In today’s age many organizations are moving towards implementing Agile as their development practice. This is great, and a great step in the right direction. But “doing Agile” is very different from “being Agile”. “Doing Agile” means adopting and implementing