Product Management – Scrummable like showing the good jam to the man choking on the dry bread Thu, 28 May 2020 15:21:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 The Death of the Author: Telling Good Stories /the-death-of-the-author-telling-good-stories/ Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:53:17 +0000 /?p=888

The Death of the Author is a postmodernist essay published in 1967 by the French literary critic Roland Barthes. In it, Barthes takes aim at traditional methods of literary interpretation, which take into account the author’s identity and personal, political and historical context in order to interpret and identify meaning within a text in a […]]]> McDonald’s Sauce Dispenser is the greatest product ever /mcdonalds-sauce-dispenser-is-the-greatest-product-ever/ Thu, 27 Jul 2017 20:16:00 +0000 /?p=770

OK, that’s a bold statement! I guess I should elaborate. Like a lot of teenagers, I worked in a Maccies one summer and I was struck by how awesome the sauce dispenser was. Basically, it’s a funnel attached to a handle with a trigger. Pulling the trigger releases 5 dots of ketchup in a quincunx […]]]> Gotta catch ’em all: The myth of requirements capture /gotta-catch-em-all-the-myth-of-requirements-capture/ Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:21:18 +0000 /?p=804

When Pokémon Go was launched in July 2016 it took the mobile games world by storm. Smashing previous download records, the app leveraged the features of your standard smartphone to provide an excruciatingly simple augmented reality style gaming experience, allowing anybody to become their own Ash Ketchum, running around like a lunatic catching critters. It […]]]> Making the Mission: Impossible possible /making-the-mission-impossible-possible/ Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:27:32 +0000 /?p=672 American actor Tom Cruise stares stoically in front of an American flag

Jack Reacher is pretty fabulous. If anyone reading this has read a Jack Reacher novel, or watched one of the Jack Reacher films, you’ll be aware of the awesomeness of Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher. He’s mainly awesome, in my opinion, because of things like this: See? The man is built like a tank, has the […]]]> Dunka-chunka-snunka-bunka-Hollyoaks! Or: constructing a user-centered product roadmap /dunka-chunka-snunka-bunka-hollyoaks-or-constructing-a-user-centered-product-roadmap/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:07:03 +0000 /?p=636 In a scene from Hollyoaks, a train explodes while paramedics tend to the wounded

Hands up who loves Hollyoaks?! Yes… I’m aware I may be in the minority here, outside of the scores of teenagers regularly getting their fix of the drama unfolding in the North Westerly town each day post-school. However, as much as the majority of the adult population may dismiss the overly dramatic soap as the […]]]> F**k you I won’t do what you tell me: the perils of the product roadmap /fk-you-i-wont-do-what-you-tell-me-the-perils-of-the-product-roadmap/ Wed, 30 Dec 2015 13:43:38 +0000 http://www.scrummable.com/?p=380

Who likes following orders? Better yet, who likes following orders blindly? One of the knottiest problems to untangle in the product development lifecycle is that of the product roadmap. Used correctly it can be a valuable tool for communication with stakeholders, and simultaneously an opportunity to allow a product team the autonomy to focus on […]]]> Making like a mob boss: knowing your problem and how to fix it /making-like-a-mob-boss-knowing-your-problem-and-how-to-fix-it-2/ Sat, 30 May 2015 12:51:16 +0000 http://www.scrummable.com/?p=109

Tony Soprano is a badass. He’s the epitome of power, charm, ‘New Joy-sey’ mafioso cool. Under his leadership, the New Jersey family grew in power to the point that it reckoned with the New York mob, which (irrespective of divided opinion on what really happened at the end of season 6) is a pretty impressive […]]]>