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Agile

• Product Development Checklist - 24 July 2020
• Don’t Let Functional Silos Kill Your Agile Implementation - 20 April 2020
• Product Roadmap Template + Tips For Making Agile Roadmaps - 16 April 2020
• What are the top 5 reasons to hold a retrospective post-release of a software product? - 29 July 2019
• Agile With A Small “a” - 31 July 2018
• Sprints and Demos: Twin Beacons of Accountability - 31 October 2017

Agile for Tangible Pro...

• How to “Control” an Agile Development Project - 27 April 2020
• Agile Management – Not an Oxymoron - 28 December 2019
• Agile Myth #1: It Can’t Work for Hardware! - 28 November 2019
• The Sprint Planning Scorecard Increases Project Predictability - 16 October 2017
• Waterfall or Agile? Do Both! - 6 October 2017
• Agile Burndown Graphs - 19 August 2011

Business

• Comparative Funding Models: Funding Innovation Programs - 9 August 2019
• Seven Product Development Process Lessons from BOSE’s Blockbusters - 30 July 2018
• Machine Learning: Impacting Innovation Today! - 26 July 2018

High Performance Teams

• Escalation Process For Projects: Escalation Management in Four Steps - 4 January 2021
• Attitude Influence Diagram: Eliminating Political Roadblocks - 1 June 2020
• Building High Performance Teams To Drive Innovation - 1 June 2020
• Unclear Escalation Paths can Kill Projects - 29 May 2020
• Getting More Done by Doing Less - 20 May 2020
• Visualizing the Resource Gaps - 15 May 2020
• The Function Phase Matrix: Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities - 8 May 2020
• How Should Product Teams Engage Senior Management? - 5 May 2020
• Tips For Leading a Globally Distributed Group - 16 April 2020
• Circle Dot Chart: Clarifying Responsibilities - 10 April 2020
• Your Company Is Not Investing Enough in Engineering Productivity, And You Know It! - 9 April 2020
• Staffing Ratio Matrix: Optimizing Workloads Across Functions - 2 April 2020
• Need to improve team performance? Find and Correct the “Pinch-Points” - 21 March 2020
• Agile Myth #1: It Can’t Work for Hardware! - 28 November 2019
• Empowering Teams Through Metrics at Apple - 30 July 2018
• Make Meetings the Best Use of Your Time (Instead of a Waste of Your Time)! - 14 July 2013
• Jump Starting Teams - 24 July 2011
• Software Product Management – Staffing Ratios - 21 May 2010

Product Definition

• Product Development Checklist - 24 July 2020
• Best Practices in Innovation: Creating Better Innovations Faster - 9 May 2020
• Need to improve team performance? Find and Correct the “Pinch-Points” - 21 March 2020
• The Product Radar Chart: Making Smart Product Tradeoffs - 9 August 2019
• Derivative Chart: Maximizing the Value of Your Platform - 9 August 2019
• Community Product Requirements Chart: Using Communities to Understand Customer Usage - 9 November 2018
• Product Vision – Between Strategy & Roadmaps - 9 November 2018
• Seven Product Development Process Lessons from BOSE’s Blockbusters - 30 July 2018
• Social Community Matrix: Getting the Most Out of Social Communities - 6 June 2013
• Are Product Roadmaps Now a Waste of Time? - 30 September 2011

Product Development Metrics

• Predictive Metrics Tree: Measuring the Behaviors That Drive Results - 17 July 2020
• Schedule Prediction Accuracy – Anticipating Problems to Deliver On Time - 2 February 2020
• How do you quantify the probability of success of a new product? - 27 July 2019
• How To Avoid Bad Product Development Metrics - 7 September 2018
• Empowering Teams Through Metrics at Apple - 30 July 2018
• Managing Project Cadence: Deliverable Hit Rate Chart - 10 October 2011
• Predictive Metrics – Measuring the right things to ensure project success - 12 September 2011
• Stop measuring results - 3 March 2010
• Why Benchmarking Often Fails to Deliver Results - 10 February 2010
• Managing Change by Measuring Behavior - 8 September 2009

Product Development Pr...

• New Product Development Process At Apple (4 Steps) - 16 April 2021
• Escalation Process For Projects: Escalation Management in Four Steps - 4 January 2021
• Product Development Checklist - 24 July 2020
• Best Practices in Applying ISO to Product Development - 11 July 2020
• A Front-End Management Process For Innovation: Removing The Fuzz from the Front-End - 10 June 2020
• Risk Management Matrix: Anticipating and Mitigating Risk - 31 May 2020
• Getting a Project Back on the Rails - 22 May 2020
• How Should Product Teams Engage Senior Management? - 5 May 2020
• Is Your Recruiting Process Damaging Your Brand? - 1 May 2020
• Your Company Is Not Investing Enough in Engineering Productivity, And You Know It! - 9 April 2020
• Visualizing the Unexpected - 7 April 2020
• Forecasting the Future - 26 March 2020
• Affinity for Diagrams - 19 March 2020
• Schedule Prediction Accuracy – Anticipating Problems to Deliver On Time - 2 February 2020
• Dot Voting – Evaluating Ideas, Prioritizing Action - 31 December 2019
• Meeting the Challenge of Top-Down Schedule Mandates - 1 May 2019
• Execution: Quickly Estimating Accurate Project Schedules - 9 November 2018
• Empowering Teams Through Metrics at Apple - 30 July 2018
• Why does Product Development still fascinate me? - 25 April 2018
• Change Impact Matrix: Understanding the Consequences of Changes - 12 July 2013
• Anticipating Risks: The Risk Mind Map - 23 May 2013
• Project Management 101 - 26 November 2012
• Optimizing Processes: Four Fields Mapping - 17 October 2011
• Software Product Management – Staffing Ratios - 21 May 2010
• Why Retrospectives are a Waste of Time - 26 January 2010

Product Strategy &...

• Product Development Checklist - 24 July 2020
• Program Managers: Linchpin of Product Development Agility - 13 June 2020
• Innovation: Are Two Systems Better Than One? - 8 June 2020
• Outsourcing Map: Harnessing the Global Workforce - 16 May 2020
• A Strategic Planning Process for Innovation: A Long Term Horizon for Product Planning - 13 May 2020
• Product Roadmap Template + Tips For Making Agile Roadmaps - 16 April 2020
• Product Portfolio Investment Map: Tying Product Strategy to Execution - 30 September 2019
• The Product Radar Chart: Making Smart Product Tradeoffs - 9 August 2019
• Comparative Funding Models: Funding Innovation Programs - 9 August 2019
• Derivative Chart: Maximizing the Value of Your Platform - 9 August 2019
• How to Manage Risk Proactively - 22 February 2019
• Technology Roadmaps: Anticipating Future Technology Trends - 28 June 2013
• Social Community Matrix: Getting the Most Out of Social Communities - 6 June 2013
• Managing Project Cadence: Deliverable Hit Rate Chart - 10 October 2011
• Are Product Roadmaps Now a Waste of Time? - 30 September 2011

Technology

• Seven Product Development Process Lessons from BOSE’s Blockbusters - 30 July 2018
• Machine Learning: Impacting Innovation Today! - 26 July 2018