Product Management and Design

Roman Pichler
The Product Roadmap and the Product Backlog7 min read · From 2018 · Find out how the product roadmap and the product backlog relate, and who should own the two artefacts.
Roman Pichler
Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams8 min read · Jun 7th · This articles share eight tips to help you make the right product decisions and generate strong support from the stakeholders and development team members.
Roman Pichler
OKRs in Product Management4 min read · 2020-12-01 · In this article, I show how OKRs can be applied in product management and I discuss the benefits and drawbacks of using them.
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engineering.atspotify.com
Squad Health Check model - visualizing what to improve8 min read · 2020-10-08 · (Download the cards & instructions as PDF or PPTX)(Translations of this article: Chinese, French) What is a squad health check model? A lot of companies experiment with ways of measuring and…
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Product-Led Growth’s Failure6 min read · Jun 3rd · How a Scrappy Utah Software Company Ignored Every Silicon Valley Heuristic and Won Anyway
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This article was informed by exclusive interviews with over a dozen current and former early employees of Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey.
By wielding a 3 pronged strategy of utilizing cheap Utah labor, gutsy product marketing, and aggressive GTM tactics, the company resoundingly beat Surveymonkey.
tearsheet.co
‘Design is a competitive advantage’: How three banks are integrating design into customer experience4 min read · 2020-09-08 · Despite all the hype around transformative technologies or the fact that consumers aren’t actually using any “fintech,” the dinosaurs of the financial world are changing from the inside out, putting…
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COVID-19: the ultimate Design Thinking use case20+ min read · 2020-05-02 · Could designers use the design thinking process to solve emergent problems and come up with innovative solutions for dealing with COVID-19?
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Design thinking is a methodology that provides a solution-based approach to solving problems
King’s College of London have defined a simple, safe, and scalable ventilator design
medium.com
Handling with stakeholders in larger organisations to drive innovation with Design Thinking9 min read · From 2018 · How adapt new methods in large and non-agile organisations? Some thoughts and assistance to implement iterative methods within enterprises.
UX Planet
Design thinking is not doomed — it’s misused3 min read · From 2018 · As design thinking continues to evolve into 2018…
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Design thinking is a human-centred approach
The New York Times
Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism6 min read · 2019-10-14 · The current system has led to profound inequality. To fix it, we need businesses and executives to value purpose alongside profit.
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Capitalism, as we know it, is dead.
Yes, profits are important, but so is society.
Skeptical business leaders who say that having a purpose beyond profit hurts the bottom line should look at the facts.
Harvard Business Review
Design for Action~17 min read · From 2015 · How to use design thinking to make great things actually happen
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Today design is even applied to helping multiple stakeholders and organizations work better as a system.
Often, fear of the unknown kills the new idea.
Intercorp’s success in boosting the middle class in Peru depended on the thoughtful design of many artifacts: a leading-edge bank, an innovative school system, and businesses adapted for frontier towns across Peru.
Harvard Business Review
Design Thinking Comes of Age10 min read · From 2015 · The approach, once used primarily in product design, is now infusing corporate culture.
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Building Products at Stripe10 min read · May 18th · Go deep, move fast, and build multi-decade abstractions. Ken Norton's interview with Stripe product lead Michael Siliski about the company's product culture.
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It’s always hard to look 30 years in the future and craft a particular product, but I think you can look at long-term trends.
You will do well if you’re very, very agile. Being able to ingest a lot of complexity and then find a path of clarity through that. Quick-thinking, quick-acting people do really well here.
It’s craftsmanship and a huge amount of dedication to getting all of the details right. Much like a designer who’s putting all the pixels on the screen and getting the colors exactly right.
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