Validating your assumptions about app features is one of the core benefits of proper product thinking. This means testing out your design theories, but also testing out higher level, strategic questions. Pivotal's Alex Tran walks us through it all. He also goes over a few examples, mapping metrics to design, discover and framing (D&F), and discusses the idea of product vs. project.
Check out the food service podcast with Jonathan Sirlin that we reference.
Mood Board:
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Richard does not do hot drinks.
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But, he's really owning the Coke Zeros in the Seattle office.
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Unlocking 9 billion dollar's worth of value.
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Stupid stand-up time.
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The fun person in strategy meetings.
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Ceremony for ceremony's sake.
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The spirit of the D&F.
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That Moment, but when it goes wrong.
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Specifically everywhere.
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Design rituals.
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Swim in the canals, but take a shower afterwards.
Subscribe, follow, feedback
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Twitter: @cote, @rseroter, @alexstran.
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Feedback: podcast@pivotal.io.
News
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PCF 2.6 released. Get good stuff for CI/CD (with Spinnaker and Concourse), sidecar processes, app revisions and rollbacks, a GA AWS service broker, and lots more.
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Survey: The State of Developer Ecosystem 2019. New survey results from Jetbrains indicates that Java is the most popular language, and for Java users, Tomcat and Spring Boot rule the roost. There's also some commentary on last week's Software Defined Talk.
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Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement. Another quarterly release, with the release led by Pivotal’s Claire Laurence.
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Pivotal Throws Its Weight Behind OpenJDK with Spring Runtime. Yes, we now offer support for OpenJDK, Spring, and Tomcat wherever you want to run it.
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Incident retrospective from Google Cloud. A recent misconfiguration took down key services around the world. Google folks offer a deep dive into how it happened. What else causes cloud outages? This paper has more examples.
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Tales of Digital Transformation: Amsterdam goes from 18.5m EUR (2013) to 30m EUR (2018) by camera scanning cars; same day delivery at Target (via Shipt acquisition); Lemonade expanding into Europe (get that Canadian Goose jacket claim in in seconds); Dominos and Kroger's robot deliveries in Houston, "later this year."
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In working on new book, Coté found this Allianz Global Digital Factory blog. Pretty good as these things go.
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