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User Adoption Podcast
The User Adoption Podcast provides interviews about improving user adoption.
read moreYou Need to Be a Problem Solver
About This Podcast Jeff Patton speaks about his experience, career tips, worst career moments, career highlights, and the future of I.T. He explains why you need to spend time with the end users of software systems, why jobs in I.T. are a good choice, and...
read moreHow To Design and Ship Successful Products
About This Podcast Agile Uprising Podcast Jeff Patton, Jeff Gothel, Colleen Johnson and Chris Murman discuss scrum product ownership, lean UX, product discovery, shipping to learn, and believability weighted design. Listen to the Podcast Use the player...
read more5 Things You’ll Need to Fix Agile Product Ownership
About the Talk Jeff Patton was a guest speaker at Open Charity, an event at the Cancer Research UK in London on 8 February 2018. The talk is focused on those working in the non-profit industry. Watch...
read moreAdventures with Agile
About This Video “Thud” is the sound a bowling ball makes when dropped onto damp earth. But it’s also the sound that most of our software makes when it hits the market. We’re great at celebrating our wild successes and finding people to blame...
read moreThud: Why It’s Not Failure You Need to Worry About
About This Video Jeff Patton at #PoDojo Studio Berlin gave this talk "Thud: Why It's Not Failure You Need to Worry About" and discussed how we scale our discovery work and experiments, and how we spend most of our time wondering if our solution...
read moreModern Agile Show
About This Video Modern Agile Show Episode 15 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Jeff Patton at the YOW!2017 Conference. More Like This
read moreDual Track Development is not Duel Track
tl;dr: If you’ve heard the term “dual-track development” before, this article explains where it comes from, and what it means. Here are the key points: Development work focuses on predictability and quality Discovery work focuses on fast learning and validation...
read moreBacklog Grooming Bugs Me
I wrote this article, a rant really, in April 2014. It was lost in a website shuffle a couple years ago, and someone recently asked if I could put it back. So here it is. But, it’s been slightly renovated from the original version to bring it up to 2017...
read moreOpportunity Canvas
An Opportunity Canvas is a simple one-pager I like to use to facilitate a discussion about a new feature or capability. It’s put together in the spirit of the Business Model Canvas or Lean Canvas which are fabulous tools for discussing new products. But,...
read moreHow to Do User Story Mapping – An Example with MadMimi
About This Podcast In this podcast with Talking Code, released 7/14/2015, Jeff teaches us how to map user stories by focusing on the user's journey to an outcome. He shares his opinion on the notorious "MVP" and how he helped Gary Levitt build his MVP with Mad Mimi....
read moreStory Mapping Example Problems
I have a fundamental problem when teaching Story Mapping in a class or workshop. That is, participants never have enough time to build a complete enough backlog to explore all the different release and development strategies that having a full backlog...
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