Aha! Blog

April 22, 2014

3 Reasons Why a Sprint is Not a Release

A very bright product and engineering leader at one of the largest media companies in the world asked me this morning. “What’s a release?” I never really thought a…

April 15, 2014

Rule #4 From the Manifesto for Agile Development

I asked my best friend, who happens to be a talented lead software engineer at a mid-size company, “What’s your favorite part of your job?” But he’s not the type of guy…

April 11, 2014

Ideation — Capturing Those Aha! Moments

We have written about ideas in the past and commented on how many of us have “idea fatigue.” We figured it was time to actually do something about it. Sure, it’s cool to…

April 2, 2014

Getting Smarter With Google Display Ads

Our company is growing quickly and we have been increasing our spending on various advertising platforms to promote our app for product managers and engineers. We…

March 25, 2014

Hey Boss — My Strategy Is Telling You "No"

Here is how it goes down. You turn the corner and the big boss (who never uses the product or speaks with customers) says “I have a great new idea for a feature.” Or…

March 17, 2014

What's Your Product?

That’s an interesting question. It’s not exactly what folks want to hear from us though when they ask us how they should organize their products. But, we need to answer…