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Successful Digital Product Innovation
by Mark Van Driel | insights | February 10th, 2023
The Product Mindset: Promises, Promises
Product Consultant, Jason Scherschligt discusses how to make and keep high-integrity commitments with key business partners while allowing time and space for product discovery and delivery.
Your “product” driver has arrived
Being assigned as a Product Owner feels a little bit like being handed the keys to a brand new car only to watch your driving instructor get in after you and immediately ask if you remember how to activate the defroster. The excitement and adrenaline you feel knowing...
From Atoms to Pixels: Digital Product and Manufacturing
This is the fifth in our series of posts on The Product Mindset. See the first post in the series here: The Product Mindset. At first glance, software companies and manufacturing companies seem diametrically opposed: pixels vs atoms, machine learning vs. machines,...
Hybrid Cloud: “the best of both worlds”
Cloud deliveredThe cloud has successfully delivered on its promise to bring highly-scalable, resilient applications with seamless deployment while reducing infrastructure cost. This change has also assisted in more agile development with a better focus on return on...
The Product Mindset: Let Them Eat Cake
For a clue about what a company or team (or a person or nation) values, just look at what it celebrates. After all, we celebrate things we're proud of or things that are meaningful to us. If you work in business or technology, you're likely familiar with the rituals...
The Product Mindset: Your Secret Weapon is Value
This is the third in our series of posts on The Product Mindset. See the first post in the series here: The Product Mindset. As we've explored throughout this series, a surefire way for companies and teams to improve their value to their customers and align their own...
In Progress and the Curse of Reductionism
This is the third in our series of posts on The Product Mindset. See the first post in the series here: The Product Mindset. As we've explored throughout this series, a surefire way for companies and teams to improve their value to their customers and align their own...
Preparation Tips for a Virtual Interview
Be prepared for something newSeeking a new job can be a stressful and time-consuming process. A virtual job search, though, is a new experience even for a seasoned job hunter. Virtual interviews are becoming more common, and while many of the old interview tips still...
Spring and Spock: Happy Together
Things change for the betterAbout four years ago I wrote a blog post describing how to use Mockito to mock dependencies within a Spring test. You can find that blog post here: https://solutiondesign.com/insights/spring-and-mockito-happy-together/. In the...
The Product Mindset: It’s Your Users’ Product
Insight This is the second in our series of posts on The Product Mindset. See the first post in the series here: The Product Mindset. Several years ago, one or another of my daughters (I have three) said, "Whoa. Dad has an Instagram?" First of all, my Instagram...
The Product Mindset
Insight Product is enjoying a moment. Twenty years ago, when I first landed a job with the title of "Product manager, interactive media," not many people even knew what the job was. (Confession: I may not have even known what the job was!). Now every smart company is...
What’s New With Microsoft in Autumn 2020
There are so many great things happening in the Microsoft space these days, it’s hard to keep track of them all. I for one continue to be amazed at the pace in which Microsoft releases new Azure products. With hundreds of available products surrounding compute,...