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The Product Canvas: A Complementary View

The product canvas, when used with a business model canvas, provides similar benefits to the product owner that the business model canvas provides to the product manager. Scott Sehlhorst examines the product canvas and the business model canvas and how the two tools can be used together.

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Scott Sehlhorst
Using the A3 Management Process for Collaboration

Sameh Zeid explores the A3 management process, which is used to implement lean thinking principles for problem solving and continuous improvement. The collaborative approach of the A3 process encourages teams to self-organize in order to determine what works.

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Sameh Zeid
How Kanban Can Help You Be More Productive

Although multi-tabbed browsers allow users to open multiple websites in one window, people might see their productivity fall by the wayside with information overload. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains how kanban can help you deal with the dilemma (and anxiety) of having too many browser tabs open.

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Lean, Agile, Lean Agile—What's the Difference?

Not everyone is going to embrace agile or lean, and even those who do often disagree on their overall definitions. The truth is that each method has its own individual meaning and benefit to your company. When you combine them, you truly maximize their potential.

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Noel Wurst
Using Kano Analysis to Define Your MVP

Kano analysis is a great tool for prioritizing the capabilities that you build into your product. It provides a great framework for competitive analysis, comparing products in the context of what actually matters to users and not just a list of checked and unchecked boxes.

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Scott Sehlhorst
From Acceptance Criteria to Acceptable Product

Using acceptance criteria to define an acceptable product works all the way up the stack from clarifying what the development team is being asked to do, to understanding what the users really need, to defining the minimum viable product that allows the company to achieve its goals.

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Scott Sehlhorst
The Testing Lean Coffee Experiment

The Lean Coffee process is a great way for a diverse group of people to discuss topics that are meaningful and relevant to all participants. Lisa Crispin writes about her experience experimenting with a testing version of the Lean Coffee™ format.

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Lisa Crispin
Using a Scaled Agile Framework for Big Agile Projects

As the software debacles experienced by both the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Knight Capital Group show, large-scale projects can become large-scale problems. Using a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) helps steer these big projects in the right direction.

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