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Write and Publish More with the May 2022 Write Stuff Writing Bundle
Do you want to write and publish more? If so, take a look at the Write Stuff 2022 story bundle. Nine books plus one class equals ten opportunities to raise your writing and publishing abilities to the...
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Why Car Roadmaps Are Not the Same as Product Roadmaps, Part 1
Several of my clients have various roadmap problems. They want a single product roadmap to serve all these purposes: Focus the team's work for this specific product for the short term. That includes...
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Choose How to Visualize Your Product Roadmap for a Team’s Product Focus, Part 2
As I said in Part 1, teams use backlogs and roadmaps to know what's now and what's next. Teams use backlogs for the day-to-day tactical decisions. And when teams can see what's next, they can keep the...
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Help Your Customers React the Way You Want with These Roadmap Options, Part 3
In Part 1, I said that customers need a different kind of roadmap than teams do. Teams need the focusing details now and a way to look forward. But, depending on where your product is in the market,...
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What Senior Managers Want & Need from Roadmaps: Predictability and Options,...
In Part 1, I said that product roadmaps are not like car roadmaps. But even car roadmaps showed places of interest—options—for the driver and passengers. If I stretch that analogy a little, managers...
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Consider Innovation and Personas When You Create Roadmaps, Part 5
We use product roadmaps to see where we want to go and the options we might take to get there. Yet, so many of our roadmaps offer only a single and certain destination. If we don't see options, we...
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How to Write a Successful Experience Report Conference Proposal
I'm reviewing experience report proposals for the XP 2023 conference. While I see potential in many of these proposals, I don't see enough proposals that make me say, “Yes! I want to read this report!...
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A Short Test to See if Your Job Will Survive AI
Every minute, it seems as if someone is talking about how great ChatGPT is. It's going to revolutionize the world! I agree— I am sure AI will revolutionize the world. At some point. But I think it's...
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Writing Secret 10: A Small Rant About Research on Social Networks
It must be the season for “research” on social networks. Just this past week, I received several requests to share my stories with researchers—as if my experience was research. Some of these...
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How to Make Your Case for Change Based on the Story the Visuals Tell
I'm working on finishing a talk based on a recent Pragmatic Manager newsletter: Three Tips to Focus to Deliver Better Products Faster. I wrote that newsletter because I'd given several recent talks...
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