In the recent post entitled "Where is the Customer in your project? Nowhere!", I shared a video post by Kalpesh Shah about increasing the value of user stories, and shared some thoughts on the problems of excluding the customer. But this topic is a bit of an irritant...
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Where is the customer in your project? Nowhere!
by Adam | Apr 23, 2016 | Quick Posts
Principle #2 of the Project Action Principles is stated as "Fulfil Customer Value, Interactively". As an aside, the only reason it is number 2 and not number 1 ("Achieve Outcomes, Rapidly"), is that we need the motive force of pro-active outcome focus that is outlined...
What is your Product POV?
by Adam | Apr 20, 2016 | Quick Posts
“As a chief executive, never think of your business in terms of what you make and what you sell, you have to think about the deeper human need that you’re satisfying and always be open to other ways of doing that.” -- Gary Hamel, US management thinker“If you get...
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