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Dear Apple, Here Are Three Things I’d Like You to Fix With Contacts
Contact represents a glaring blind spot both in terms of functionality and user experience. That’s ironic since Apple’s marketing revolves around connecting people.
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Excellent Engineering Won’t Keep You From Solving the Wrong Problem : How Story Mapping Helps You Stay Aligned with What Matters
Teams like this can follow the tenants of XP and agile to the letter, and still build the wrong product. Teams like this need tools on a whole different level.
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Use the Force
Knowing your opponent’s most ardent desire is the key to beating them at their own game.
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Steady On Target
It’s all very well to come up with an award winning strategy, the tough bit is to stick to it when the goings get rough.
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Defining Done
Endings are tricky business; how do you know when you’re done?
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Sometimes Slowing Down Will Make You Go Faster
There’s a reason why there’s such a cult around speed in startup culture. Whoever reaches the market first has a huge advantage, so you better get there before your competitors do, because the first mover advantage often eclipses the importance of who has the best product.
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Where Is This Road Taking Us? : Managing Complexity in Software Development
Queues are the Viet Cong of software engineering; the asymmetrical threat you can’t predict.
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Product Spells D-E-V-I-C-E + S-E-R-V-I-C-E : Lessons from William H. Davidow on High-Tech Marketing
Segmentation is marketing’s most discussed and least understood concept.
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Customer Value as North Star
Just because you’re metric driven, doesn’t mean you’re going in the right direction.
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Take Me to the Moon
Communicating what you want done is the essence of product management, but finding the right level of abstraction can be hard.
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Product People Will Get Us Out of the Fix
It will be a slog for a while, but who ever said it was going to be easy?
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What I Think About When I Think About Design
There are basically two modes of problem solving that are in wide spread use. We need a complementary attack angle.
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Beyond What They Want
How to build products that doesn’t just give people what they think they want.
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Death of the Salesman
Being effective at sales has very little to do with how sales people are supposed to behave.
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Love What You Launch
Just because it’s minimal doesn’t mean it’s easy.