The Evolve Beyond Blog

Goal Mapping

A product backlog is a queue of work. And queues aren’t something we should aspire to, rather we should have the smallest queue (or no queue) so we can get our products out quickly. Some thoughts on backlogs from Gabrielle.

Ryan Shriver's Design Class Sticky Notes, posted on a desk.

The Black Art of Sticky Notes

Gabrielle writes about some handy tips for using Sticky Notes

Evolve Beyond Meetups

A few months ago, we hosted our first Evolve Beyond Meetup in London. We had a number of guest speakers, who each delivered a compact and illuminating talk (not more than 10 minutes each) on a variety of topics, but all based around lean and agile product design and development.

The Value of Innovation

I’ve been reading up on the value of innovation, in preparation for the Value seminar by Tom Gilb in London this week. One question for Agile teams is how to innovate within the constant pressure of “Sprinting” and barely having time to draw breath.

We Should Run Our Products Like a Trading Floor

Imagine an investment bank running with the following scenario: Manager: “Hi team, we are putting in place a new process for you to help us be more predictable and control our budget and schedules over the next year. By the end of December, we want you to hand in a plan that tells us: Which […]