To get started, we asked these organizations to buy a block of time. Most started with 50 or 100 hours. We then worked off that time, as needed. Once we’d exhausted those hours, they could buy more, or call it a day. We explained that if they ever wanted to quit early, we’d just write a check for any unused time.How We Fixed Our Studio’s Cash-Flow Problem
Ignoring problems also takes away a learning opportunity. Mistakes are typically due to human oversight. If the mistake is not caught in a timely manner, similar mistakes are likely to keep happening because the person committing the mistake hasn’t had a chance to learn from it.Agile Gone Wrong
Cargo cults describe situations where people emulate a set of behaviours, without understanding their underlying motivations. When this happens with data-science, organizations will emulate the technology behind data science, without creating a data-driven organizational culture.Cargo cult data science
Unlike “waterfall projects”, scrum projects are made of so-called sprints, which are portions of a project that usually last for a defined number of weeks in which a multidisciplinary team works together on a challenge.How to Mash-Up and Benefit from PM and the Design Thinking Process
Designers who possess an insatiable curiosity will learn, adapt, upskill, and push your team forward in ways you could never predict. When something new is required of them, their immediate reaction will be to go and read about the subject. Not because it’s their job; because they simply can’t help being so damn interested in every aspect of design.Unicorn designers don’t exist. Generalists do.
In a roadmap first team, the missing link is Iterations. Great products are born only when the core features are the team’s main focus, and iterations and improvements are part of the team’s culture. The key is adding value, and not just marking more V’s in the checklist.The problem with ‘roadmap first’ teams
