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Monday Morning #TipOfTheWeek: Build What You Need, Not What You Expect to Need Monday Morning #TipOfTheWeek: One of the things that I learned early on as I started exploring XP (eXtreme Programming) was the XP mantra: build only what you need, not what you expect to need. When building your backlog...

Uplevelling Your Skills in the Age of AI: AI is Your New Best Friend, Not Your Replacement The fear of being replaced by AI is understandable. Living and working here in Silicon Valley, I have seen firsthand how technology has historically displaced jobs. However, we’re still in the early stages...

Beyond the Price Tag: How Payment Methods Can Make or Break Your Startup I came across the DVF framework from Ideo years ago. The DVF framework consists of three areas – Desirability, Viability, and Feasibility. Desirability answers the question, “Do customers want it?” Viability answers the question, “Will customers pay...

Do you really need a Product Backlog? Do you need to have a product backlog? Does it have to conform with statements in the form of User Stories? I get a lot of these questions from all sorts of people that I’ve met or collaborated with throughout my career. Lately...

What’s up with remote job listings that have a location? I recently saw a bunch of job listings from the same company on LinkedIn that read something like this: - Product Manager (Remote - UK) - Product Manager (Remote - US) - Product Manager (Remote - Germany) etc. My brain...

Getting Close to the Customer is a Team Sport One of the things that agilists say is to get the team as close to the customer as possible, in order to build what they truly need and achieve the outcomes that the business desires. However, in the past 20+ years...