By Eric Krock on April 18, 2011
Don’t assume your users will perform perfectly. Assume they will get tired, busy, distracted, hurried, and interrupted and will make mistakes. Then design your products accordingly. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Case Studies, Design, Product Management, Psychology, Risk |
By Eric Krock on April 15, 2011
Startups, product managers, and project managers can save time by focusing on current revenue, plans for generating revenue, whether anticipated revenue supports the company’s valuation, and what other value the company has to potential acquirers. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Agile, Leadership, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Risk, Scrum, Startup |
By Eric Krock on March 29, 2011
Your mind is only as free as you make it. Beware unchallenged assumptions. They are a prison for your mind that you build yourself! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Case Studies, Organizational Behavior, Planning, Product Management, Risk, Road Map, Security |
By Eric Krock on March 23, 2011
Don’t make the mistake of applying different security or safety standards to the same critical asset at different times based on expediency. If an asset is critical, it needs to be consistently protected, not inconsistently protected. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Compliance, Design, Product Management, Project Management, Psychology, Risk, Security |
By Eric Krock on March 22, 2011
It’s much better to have an incomplete bug report in the system than to have a bug reporting system with an incomplete list of the known problems. By training your team to report bugs immediately, you can reduce risk for your product and company. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Product Management, Project Management, Risk |
By Eric Krock on March 17, 2011
People are rarely rewarded for asking difficult questions with expensive answers. Ask the hard questions, and pursue them wherever they may lead! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Case Studies, Cost, Design, Integrity, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Risk |
By Eric Krock on March 15, 2011
When doing product or project management, pay special attention to big potential risks that are causing no symptoms today. It is these risks that you’re most likely to underinvest in addressing and therefore these risks that are most likely to cause big problems in the future. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Case Studies, Cost, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Psychology, Risk |
By Eric Krock on March 14, 2011
One lesson from Fukushima is already clear: when all of your failover systems can fail simultaneously due to the same cause, you don’t have redundancy. You have a single point of failure with multiple moving parts. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Case Studies, Compliance, Cost, Design, Risk |
By Eric Krock on February 10, 2011
Beware product designs in which a user can select many objects and do destructive data operations. Want to have a really bad day at the office? Apply an operation to the currently-selected list of objects … whatever that list might be! Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Best Practices, Design, Product Management, Risk, Road Map, Training, Workflow |
By Eric Krock on January 28, 2011
It takes a special kind of stupidity (one-step thinking) to shut down Internet and mobile phone access to an entire country. Learn from Hosni Mubarak’s mistake. Think about ALL of the consequences of your proposal before implementing it. Read full article ...
Posted in Agile Product and Project Management | Tagged Collaboration, Communication, Leadership, Planning, Product Management, Project Management, Risk |
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