SPONSORED POST More and more, world-class commerce depends on partnerships to optimize the user experience and help drive business growth. But that’s often easier said than done when it comes to payments, because while many companies want more integrated experiences with partners, they may also want...
KEY TAKEAWAY As teams tackle the various scopes of work, it’s often that tasks are tracked so that we know which tasks have been completed and which tasks have not. But aside from the tasks that are tracked, we should also be tracking the “unknowns.” OUR TAKE As...
KEY TAKEAWAY They can block your progress. Once the unknowns are known, completing each task will become much easier. OUR TAKE Another innovation that comes from the Basecamp team is the way that they look at progress being made on a specific project. Of course, Basecamp is well...
KEY TAKEAWAY When there are unknowns, that can create more bottlenecks down the line. Singer and his team are aware of this, and therefore don’t pretend that they can accurately estimate the time that will be required to complete important tasks within a project. It may...
KEY TAKEAWAY Break up work to make the tasks easier to accomplish. Singer suggests treating a high-level plan like a cut of meat. Some parts of the work are interconnected, but many operate independently. By “slicing” the bigger project into scopes, the team can prioritise the...
KEY TAKEAWAY At Basecamp, there is no backlog. But a team isn’t assigned to work on an idea until a certain level of work is completed first and that idea is in some sort of prototype form. OUR TAKE No backlog? That’s blasphemy! But that’s one of the...
KEY TAKEAWAY Products are a tool for the customer to progress and reach their own solution. If customers cannot figure out the product or figure out how to progress, that is your problem, not theirs. OUR TAKE As product people, we at Product Collective liked to think that...
KEY TAKEAWAY It is imperative to understand how customers actually use the product, so you can build the correct product. OUR TAKE If you thought that bottle of water that you purchased at your local convenience store was simply a bottle of water… it turns out that you’re...
KEY TAKEAWAY Demand-side innovation uses feedback from consumers and finds solutions. That works better than supply-side innovation, which will fail if the demand is not present. OUR TAKE Once we can actually define innovation -- it’s not just as simple to say, “OK… let’s innovate!” Bob Moesta previously...
KEY TAKEAWAY Invention is creating anything. Innovation is creating something that has a lasting impact on the world. Innovation builds on previous innovations. Moesta gives the example of the Segway as an invention, but the typewriter as an innovation. The typewriter, with its QWERTY keyboard, continue...