Category Archives: Design

How do you create a product vision? Part 5

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 151 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  163,000 Communicating the product vision – to employees, to customers, to investors This post is the fifth part of describing how to create a product … Continue reading →

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How do you create a product vision? Part 4

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 150 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  162,000 Creating the product vision using service dominant logic and an outcomes orientation This post is the fourth part of describing how to create a … Continue reading →

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How do you create a product vision? Part 3

Posted on August 9, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 149 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  162,000 Using an Influencer Centered Design Process to Collaborate with Customers and Domain Experts on your Product Vision This post is the third part of … Continue reading →

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How do you create a product vision? Part 2

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 148 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  161,000 Becoming an expert quickly This post is the second part of describing how to create a product vision. Getting to a product vision for … Continue reading →

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How do you create a product vision? Part 1

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 147 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  160,000 Developing a Product Vision in an Early Stage Startup While coaching an early stage startup CEO, she asked: How do you come up with … Continue reading →

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What is a book? Part 2: The Form

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 110 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  129,000 I was beyond ecstatic to be selected as Vice President of Software Engineering for Aldus Corporation in 1990.  I … Continue reading →

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What is a book?

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 109 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  128,000 I love books. From the minute I learned how to read, I surrounded myself with books of all kinds. … Continue reading →

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Timeless Way of Building

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 107 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  127,000 I love Christopher Alexander’s Timeless Way of Building. I love the form and the content.  Alexander wrote the book … Continue reading →

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A Product has a North Star

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Skip Walter

Recently, I came across a blog post on “North Star Metric” (NSM).  I was delighted that somebody else had written about a topic that is critical to the product teams I’ve managed.  I shared my thoughts in the post “The … Continue reading →

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Why are there so few visual analytics applications?

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Skip Walter

I wish I knew. Robert Crawford asked “Why are there so few interactive visualization software application products in the legal space?  Attenex Patterns showed us the power of visual analytics to dramatically improve productivity in the legal market.  Yet, outside … Continue reading →

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