Mastering collaboration in a product team: 70 techniques to help teams build better products

The nature of product development is changing. The most successful innovations are those that come from teams of people who are exploring problems together. Teams that build meaningful releases of their products iteratively and incrementally are opening the door for early feedback so that decisions can be taken to persevere or pivot based on evidence. But how do you make the most out of a teams different perspectives, experiences and ideas? How can you instill a collaborative mindset in a product development team? How do you find out if your product idea actually has any value? How can you truly understand peoples needs? Mastering Collaboration in a Product Team is a toolbox of proven techniques from the field for the whole product team to use together to find answers to these questions and more. It is filled with practical tools to maximize your teams chances of success when developing products and services, from identifying opportunities, to the point of being able to confidently go into production. You will: Define peoples real problems and needs Collaboratively create innovative ideas Validate product/feature ideas quickly and cheaply as a team Explore a lightweight introduction to the techniques of modern product development.

Includes index.

Chapter 1. How Long Has It Been -- Chapter 2: Feedback Bizarre -- Chapter 3. Crazy 8s -- Chapter 4. Interviews -- Chapter 5. Collect, Converge and Converse -- Chapter 6. Proto Personas -- Chapter 7. Declaring Assumptions -- Chapter 8. Product Life Cycle -- Chapter 9. Stick Your Nose In Your Competitor's Business -- Chapter 10. Worst Possible Ideas- Chapter 11. Journey Map -- Chapter 12. Put Your Different Thinking Hats On -- Chapter 13. Focus Groups -- Chapter 14. Evaluate Your Options -- Chapter 15. Hypotheses -- Chapter 16. Seen and Heard -- Chapter 17. Flows -- Chapter 18. Empathy Mapping -- Chapter 19. Heuristic Evaluation -- Chapter 20. 10 10 10 Rule -- Chapter 21. Knowing When to Stop -- Chapter 22. Tomorrow's Headline -- Chapter 23. Speaking the Same Language -- Chapter 24. Experience Based Road Mapping -- Chapter 25. Card Sorting -- Chapter 26. Service Blueprinting -- Chapter 27. Go and Do -- Chapter 28. Kano Model -- Chapter 29. Laddering Up -- Chapter 30. Pirate Metrics -- Chapter 31. Paper Prototyping -- Chapter 32. How Might We -- Chapter 33. Stakeholder Mapping -- Chapter 34. Vanishing Options -- Chapter 35. Guerrilla Testing -- Chapter 36. Tree Testing -- Chapter 37.…