2020 has been a different year for all of us. We have worked differently, lived differently, and learned a lot about ourselves, families, employers, politicians, and the world in general. But there was also some excellent product development content written this year! Here are some of the great reads we…

Right-sizing work items is one aspect we have been thinking a lot about. Specifically, we see that the typical sizing of work items in many tools doesn’t really map to best practices. For example, Kanban says that the board should directly map to your process, meaning that an element moving…

The 2020 Scrum Guide was recently published. What is significant is that we see that the guide incorporates some of the core principles of best-practice product development. Here are some of the critical elements: The scrum team is clearly cross-functional, meaning it contains all the skills necessary to create value…

The best and worst part of product development is the mess. By the mess, we mean the process of people of different backgrounds and roles coming together, collaborating across a multitude of tools, and based on ambiguous information producing a single coherent product that makes their customers’ lives easier. Our…