product-mgmt-today Archives

Development Practices

How to Ensure a Successful Mobile App Release

A smooth mobile app release should include several kinds of testing, Alpha and Beta distribution, and phased rollouts.

UX/Design Techniques

Villainous Personas – Anticipating the Users You Don’t Want

How to think about the users you don't want so you can prevent, block, or report them from engaging in the experience you are building.

Project & Team Management

Four Project Management Lessons from March Madness

Your bracket may be busted, but your project doesn't have to be. 4 simple lessons from March Madness you can apply to project management and planning.

Project & Team Management

Starting Strong – 5 Ways to Establish Good Team Dynamics & Norms

If an Agile team owns the process, they also own their team dynamics. Defining logistics upfront may be overhead, but it’s worth the investment.

UX/Design Techniques

Get More Value from “Hopes and Fears” with a Quadrant Map

Once you've mapped out your hopes and fears, evaluate (and then track) the fears as potential risks. Which are likely? Which are the most dangerous?

Personal Optimization

Reviving the Handwritten Thank-You Note: Tips, Tools, and a 4-Sentence Template

Be more grateful in 2019! Here are examples, a tracking tool, and a 4-sentence template to help you write the perfect thank-you note.

Personal Optimization

Creating a Fast, Easy Daily Log with Bear & aText

Keeping a daily log can be tedious. Here's how I use Bear — plus shortcuts from text expander aText— to easily record everything I do during the day.

Android Development

With Jetpack, Android Development Has Leapfrogged iOS

Google has been busy improving their dev tools, languages, and frameworks in the last couple years – creating a solid, well-thought-out framework.

UX/Design Techniques

Using “Last Thursdays” to Discuss Exceptions with Users

When you teach a user not to think about exceptions as "bad," they're eager to share all the alternative ways that similar tasks need to be performed.

Planning Your Project

Is Your New Feature Worth It?

Don't let your excitement overtake and derail your great product. Refine it, and add new features, but only when they make sense.

UX/Design Techniques

Wireframing for Non-Designers – A Crash Course

Wireframes benefit the entire team, and they can be created by any member of the team. I'll give you the whys, whens, and hows of wireframes for software.

UX/Design Techniques

Writing Context Scenarios? Start at the End

Most context scenarios are hyper-focused on how users interact with the app. Writing them backwards opens you to new possibilities and diverging scenarios.