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Articles about Product Management and more…

I write about Product Management, Technology, User Experience, Service Design and Agile.

All articles are originally posted on:

Mind the Product www.mindtheproduct.com,

UX Collective UX Collective

My Medium www.medium.com/@whitmaan

Lean, Rapid User Testing that doesn’t cost the earth but delivers great insights

User research can quickly become costly, in terms of recruiting, kit, staff time etc — so how do you do it rapidly and at low cost?

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James Whitman21 January 2019
The perks of being a generalist

There are many perks to working in Product Management - but what is it that gets me out of bed in the morning and makes me love my career?

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James Whitman6 December 2018
Breaking Down Silos to Build a Culture Focused in a Single Direction

There’s no point building an empire if you’re doing it on a Sinking Island. So how do we fix it?

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James Whitman26 November 2018product management, culture, mission statmenet, vision
Stop 'delivering' software with Agile - It doesn't work

Let me start by asking you a question.

Are you delivering software with Agile methods?

Yes? Great! But lets chat about that…

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James Whitman14 August 2018
When Users take Product Design into their own hands

When a Product has a fundamental flaw but there's enough to keep them using it, they'll find workarounds for the parts they don't like

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James Whitman27 May 2018
Stop Blaming your Digital Tools for your Problems

Your tools are not the problem, your reliance and attitude towards them is

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James Whitman27 February 2018
The Currency of the Modern World: Your Attention

Forget about paying for your goods and services with money the currency of the modern world is your ability to pay attention.

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James Whitman24 February 2018
Cycle Time — Using data to help empower and create powerful agile teams

Learn how you can use cycle time within your teams to allow them to become self empowered to create amazing products.

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James Whitman17 February 2018
Killer Apps, Tech, Books, Companies and Working Practices of 2017

A breakdown of all the killer apps, tech, books and working practices of 2017 that made this year great.

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James Whitman15 December 2017
Effective User Story Creation (and all the other bits needed on a ticket)

All the bits and bobs you need for an effective User Story, including how to write one and how to structure acceptance criteria.

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James Whitman16 June 2017
Can and should I work on more than one thing at a time as a Product Manager?

The great debate on whether we should just focus on only delivering one feature at a time, or whether we should work on multiple streams…

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James Whitman18 May 2017
How important is quality Software Engineering to Products from a Product Owners perspective?

Exploring how important good Software Engineering is to Products from a Product Owners perspective

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James Whitman14 March 2017
The Product ‘Half-Life’ — Working against time to continually deliver a good product

How all that we do in Product and UX only has a limited time of effectiveness

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James Whitman29 January 2017
Why I changed my mind on Voice Interfaces — but won’t be building my own

Why I was wrong for thinking voice interfaces wouldn’t work…

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James Whitman30 December 2016
How data can reduce deaths, but cause head injury — A PO’s headache

As a Product Owner I am entirely data driven, in fact - pretty much everything I ever do is because there’s some data behind it.

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James Whitman29 November 2016
Why Customer Experience is the next big buzzword in Digital and is overtaking User Experience

A lot of people I meet in the digital sector work in some form of optimising User Experience, a lot of people even have UX in their job, but not many have ‘Customer Experience’ in there…. yet.

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James Whitman16 July 2016

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