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    • A Case Study
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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Discovery”

Survival in a demand-driven world

This is a really interesting read on Loose Threads. It talks about how the world of retail clothing has shifted from being supply-constrained to demand-driven. It looks at how Zara operates …

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Deliver Early and OftenDiscovery

Product Roadmaps and Cost of Delay

I sometimes get asked about how Cost of Delay and CD3 work with Product Roadmaps. This post is an initial attempt to collate my current thinking on this (as green …

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Cost of DelayDiscoveryProduct
road stretching off into the distance

Product Roadmaps

What is a Product Roadmap for? What is the “job to be done” for which people “hire” Product Roadmaps? Of course, there are lots of different behaviours that Product Roadmaps …

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ComplexityDecisionsDiscoveryJTBDPlanningProductStrategy

Ten To Talk To

A while back, I floated the idea of a conference where all of the speakers were women… @pawelbrodzinski i quite like the idea of a conference with women-only speakers — and …

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DeliveryDesignDiscoveryProductStrategy

Iterations vs Increments (Mona Lisa and Mrs Fox)

One of the best ways to tilt the playing field of Product Development is to take an iterative or incremental approach. What does this mean though? It is easy to get …

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DiscoveryEmergenceIncrementsIterations

Why failing fast is valuable

A while back I posted this quote from a BBC interview with Astro Teller, “Capitain of Moonshots” at Google[x]: You must reward people for failing, he says. If not, they won’t …

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DiscoveryInformationUncertainty

Google, on moonshots

From a BBC interview with Astro Teller, “Capitain of Moonshots” at Google[x]: You must reward people for failing, he says. If not, they won’t take risks and make breakthroughs. If …

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Asymmetric PayoffDiscovery
Explorers discovering the first Black Swans, previously considered impossible.

Discovery Mindset and Black Swans

In 82 AD, the roman satirist Juvenal wrote of the existence of a “perfect wife” being like that of a non-existent bird – nigroque cycnoa – the black swan. Juvenal’s “Black …

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DiscoveryUncertainty

The problem with projects

If you consider the economic value and urgency for each of the requirements for your software development project, you will likely find that it is not evenly distributed. It’s not …

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Cost of DelayDiscoveryPrioritisation

Information Discovery Value

One of the components to consider when trying to understand Cost of Delay is the value of Information Discovery. This can take on two basic forms: knowing which paths will …

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Asymmetric PayoffComplexityDiscoveryInformation

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  • Comparing Prioritisation Approaches

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  • SAFe & CoD: a suggested improvement
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