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Have you ever found yourself asking why you spent AGES building a feature that nobody uses?
Dan McKinley (@mcfunley) uses war stories from his time at Etsy to show why adopting a data-driven approach helped them move from pointless science projects to building product features that really mattered.
Companies often want to go Agile because it promises a more collaborative, market-centric and frequent delivery of product to market. In practice, however, gaps start to emerge because the rest of the business hasn’t adapted its adjacent processes to cope …
Link of the day: The Agile Business Gap by @brainmates Read more
If you’ve got 15 minutes handy, here’s an engaging and useful overview of Agile Product Ownership by Henrik Kniberg over on Crisp’s Blog.
Lovely article from Joel Gascoigne about why startups should just start charging from the outset, and why it’s not that big a deal to evolve and change pricing later on – as long as you don’t screw over your existing …
Link of the Day: Pricing your product – it doesn’t have to be so complicated Read more
Set up a “Launching Soon” page in minutes. Collect interest, increase sharing and build your audience. Take a look at LaunchRock!
An intriguing and nonintuitive aspect of customer satisfaction is that sometimes the feature that provides the most satisfaction is one that customers didn’t know they wanted until they saw it. – Mike Cohn For how long have you been prioritising …
Link of the Day: Kano tutorial via Mountain Goat Software Read more
Android app is still in beta, but worth a quick look. Handy if you’re a freelancer, or just need to keep tabs on your multitasking! Free Time Tracking Software – Klok Free and Klok Pro.
Product Focus do a nice line in journals covering particular topics such as pricing and business cases. They’re clear, easy to read and immensely practical, so well worth a look. Find them at productfocus.com
MindJet has made a free, cloud-based version of its mindmapping tool available and it’s lovely to use. It’s now a much better alternative to FreeMind (sorry guys), and being browser-based, avoids any corporate IT restrictions on installing software.
While I was working at a former start-up called Zeus Technology (now doing rather well for itself, thank you), one of the investors was a chap called Nic Brisbourne. He writes a blog called The Equity Kicker.
