The Value of Delivering Nothing.
In the fast-paced world of product innovation and agile development, delivering value through new products, features and solutions is paramount. Sometimes, however, Product teams can deliver value by saying, "No"
The mythical “Full Stack” Product Manager…
The ‘Full Stack’ term has recently started to appear in buzzword-heavy Job descriptions for Product Managers. Recruiter Marketeers love a good buzzword and ‘full stack’ is just such a thing: it means nothing, so it can be used everywhere and for whatever definition you wish. But is ‘full stack’ useful, or even advisa
The A, E, I, O, U of agile innovation
Following on from an earlier post (https://ronhealy.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/go-far-avoid-the-fogs/), I have developed a memory tool as an easy way to remember the agile approach to iterative innovation. It is a simple-to-understand set of activities that should be suitable for all agile innovation – no matter how big or s
The Dark Art of Agile Innovation
...there is a ‘darker’ side to Agile Innovation - let’s call it the "Dark Art" of Agile Innovation [...] the soft skills and intuition that come with experience and a creative, imaginative, and adventurous mindset
The Net Promoter Score and the “couldn’t care less” group…
...how do you account for those who literally couldn’t care enough to even bother answering…?
Are your experts up for the agile challenge?
Are the Subject Matter Experts in your organisation ready for the agile challenge? To be clear (because clarity is critical in all-things-agile), I don’t mean “are your experts ready for the challenge of agile”… I mean “are your experts ready to be challenged, as they certainly will be if they work in an agile environm