Surprise! Sony’s Playstation 5 will be called: Playstation 5!
Along with new haptic feedback tech that replaces rumble in controllers.
Source: Sony confirms PlayStation 5 name, holiday 2020 release date – The Verge
Category: Product, Projekt & Agile
Product, Projekt & Agile: Thoughts and articles that touch and cover Product and Project Management, for the majority with Agile Methodologies. These items include Market Observation, Competitive Analysis, Backlog Prioritisation, but also choice of tools and technology.
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Sony confirms PlayStation 5
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Microsoft is all in on Hardware
thenextweb.com has a rundown of Surface Laptop, Surface Duo, Surface Earbuds, Neo and everything else Microsoft announced at their Surface event this week.
Here’s a quick rundown of Microsoft’s exciting new hardware for the coming year, including Surface laptops, earbuds, a foldable phone, and more.
Source: Surface Duo, Neo, and everything else at Microsoft’s packed hardware event
The Verge has a summary in 11 minutes:
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Essential Product Metrics
Data driven product management requires measurements and metrics. Over at Product Management Insider, shares some detail about the pirate („AARRR!“) system and the HEART model.
The article is here.
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User Onboarding the Right Way
For a Product Manager, User Experience is a huge topic that draws a lot of thought and energy. Crunchbase today sent me this in their newsletter, discussing an aspect that is often underestimated. While the example seems odd, it has a good point, countering other guidance to raise customer engagement. For people that remember Ok Cupid or match.com, the article is a good read.
Ok Cupid How do you do user onboarding right? Here is what Alex Paley, Head of Studio at Glu Mobile learned over his years building onboarding experiences in mobile games.
Source: User Onboarding the Right Way: 3 Tips for Better Product Onboarding
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Amazon Echo Frames
Amazon released some smart glasses. The Echo Frames. Businessinsider Analysts Peter and Ayoub share. And while at lease one is concerned with security, I’m wondering why none refers to what happend to Googles approach to smart glasses.
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Do away with the Product Owner Role
Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software has an opinion on Scrum’s Product Owner Role. It’s controversial, and Product people will disagree.
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Data-driven Product Management
In the age of Big Data, product management can leverage plenty of feedback. Any product decision can be based on data, too. Product Coalition has an article. Setting up User Analytics.
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How to measure product market fit
Looking at the right metrics to achieve a product market fit.
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Why Would You NEVER Apply Agile Software Development Processes?
A central statement in the Agile Manifesto is to put Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Many development teams, in particular those with less experience, lack the self sufficiency to deal with this freedom. It’s probably not the exact answer to the question, but it makes Agile a lot more difficult.
Here is the original blog: Herding Cats: Why Would You NEVER Apply Agile Software Development Processes?
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The Dropbox journey to static type checking with Python
Type Annotation is a feature that allows Python to maintain it’s dynamic typing and enable option static typing in the same code base. With the arrival of Python 3.5, the language implemented PEP 484, that describes a syntax to annotate code with type hints. Dropbox took a journey to leverage this option on 4 million lines of code for better quality. Here are their experiences.
Type annotation Dropbox is a big user of Python. It’s our most widely used language both for backend services and the desktop client app (we are also heavy users of Go, TypeScript, and Rust).
Source: Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python | Dropbox Tech Blog