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The Product Owner – the poster
Being a Product Owner sure is a lot of work! Following my talk at the recent ALE unconference in Barcelona, I re-made the iconography used in my talk and turned it into a poster: The Complete Product Owner Poster. The poster is available in three colour combinations, and is printable on any normal office or…
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Apple Maps and the Tall Poppy Syndrome
Ever since Apple launched iOS6 with their brand new Apple Maps, the web has been flooded with reports, posts, tweets and even special tumbler blogs dedicated to pointing out how ‘catastrophically bad’ Apple’s Maps product is. The cacophony reached a crescendo on Friday with this post from the normally respectable Business Insider, pointing out how…
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The “tweet pitch”: an elevator pitch in 140 characters
What’s the one sentence that describes your product? We all know about the Elevator Pitch – the 30 second pitch that you would deliver to your CEO or to an investor whom you meet in an elevator, where you have until the elevator doors open to pitch your great idea. I’ve written before that it’s…
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Microsoft gives all its employees a new phone, tablet and PC… and I think that’s real smart
Geekwire reported on Friday that Microsoft announced at their annual employee conference that every full-time employee will receive a brand spankin’ new Windows 8 mobile device, Windows 8 computer and a new Surface Tablet – for work and private use. With over 90,000 full-time employees, this is not an inexpensive exercise… with a generous estimate…
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The Law of Two Feet – every day
In open space-style workshops/sessions there’s a concept called “The Law of Two Feet”. It means that if, at any time, you feel you are not contributing to the session, or if you are not learning something, then you should use your two feet to leave the session and find one where you can contribute and…
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ALE 2012: My presentation: “The Product Owner – The Accidental Profession”
Here you can find the slides from my presentation at the Agile Lean Europe 2012 Unconference in Barcelona this week. Download the slides Thank you to everyone who attended and gave feedback!
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On new solutions to old problems…
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.”—…
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A brief memoir of my days as a barkeeper (and why ex-barkeepers make great employees)
Cocktail Group – by kurmanstaff. Over the years since I finished high school I’ve had the immense good fortune to work with a handful of remarkable people who have inspired me deeply; who have mentored me and taught me an incredible amount about myself. The first of these was not a CEO or a VP;…
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5 viral product marketing myths
“Go Viral” by Tom Fishburne. Everybody’s saying it… “Let’s make it go viral!” “We need to build in some virality.” “It should be more viral!” The problem I have encountered often recently is that many people seem to have various misconceptions about what ‘viral’ really is, what it really means – but mostly how easy…
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Dear NULL
It’s a simple thing to get someone’s name right. Yousendit had an opportunity. They had my email address from whenever I had signed up to their service in order to download some file or another. I knew the service and trusted it enough to sign up, and if I had left my email address, I…