The Chief Innovation Officer’s Blog
MVPs and Startups - FAQs
MVPs and Startups - Why should a startup follow the MVP approach? How do you prioritize features? Answering these and other frequent questions people ask me about Minimum Viable Products - MVPs
How to Set Up and Lead a Great Product Development Team
As a product leader, you need an inspired, talented team, to believe in your product vision and work with passion towards the shared goal — a great product satisfying all the predefined success criteria + one more: to make the entire team proud of the outcome.
Building an MVP: How to define the first instance of your product
This article provides actionable guidance on how to define a good Minimum Viable Product and how to avoid common mistakes and risks. If you are in the process of designing a product, establishing a product development function, or setting up a technology startup you will find essential information on how to approach the MVP development process.
The True Meaning of Minimum Viable Product
A popular definition for the MVP is this one “… the minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future development…”
Product Leadership: 9 Traits of Great Product Leaders
Building great products is a difficult and complex job — but also fascinating. It requires a bold vision and, at the same time, a strong connection with reality. This article presents the key qualities of a great Product Leader.
Solving Complex Problems (Like Innovation)
In this article, our guest author Nur Karadeniz explains how every business depends on a complex system of people, processes, and technologies. Nur presents how to harness a variety of experts to develop powerful ideas to address your chosen problem and help you consider how to test and confirm the best ideas to implement.
Being Agile: How (and Why) to Write Great User Stories
User stories are simple, yet extremely powerful constructs: they describe pieces of functionality from a user’s point of view, expressed in a solid, compact way. Read on how they can accelerate product development and innovation workshops.
Rapid Prototyping practices for Software Engineering teams
The ability to quickly test ideas via functional prototypes can boost innovation performance. In this article we present a practical guide on how to achieve an increased level of prototyping readiness.