Dependency Management
The process of identifying, assessing, and controlling dependencies between tasks or projects to minimize risks and ensure smooth project execution. Crucial for effective project management and delivery.
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MoSCoW Prioritization
Must have, Should have, Could have, and Won't have (MoSCoW) is a method used to prioritize features or tasks. Crucial for effective project management and ensuring focus on essential features.
Feature Team
A team responsible for delivering specific features or enhancements, typically working on predefined requirements and focusing on the implementation of assigned features. Important for executing well-defined tasks and ensuring timely delivery of specific functionalities within a product.
Product Manager
A professional responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of a product or product line, ensuring it meets market needs and business goals. Essential for guiding the development and success of products from conception to market.
KPI
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are quantifiable measures used to evaluate the success of an organization, employee, or project in meeting objectives for performance. Essential for tracking progress, making informed decisions, and aligning efforts with strategic goals across various business functions, including product design and development.
Adaptive Control of Thought
A cognitive architecture model that explains how humans can learn and adapt to new tasks. Useful for understanding user learning and behavior adaptation, informing better user experience design.
Accot-Zhai Steering Law
A model predicting the speed-accuracy trade-off in pointing tasks when using devices like a mouse, important for user interface design. Useful for designing user interfaces that are efficient and easy to navigate.
Product vs. Program
Products are individual items or services designed to meet specific customer needs, while programs are collections of related projects and products managed together to achieve broader strategic goals. Essential for understanding the different scopes and objectives involved, helping to manage and align efforts effectively within an organization.
Kanban
A visual workflow management method used to visualize work, limit work-in-progress, and maximize efficiency. Crucial for improving workflow and productivity in various processes.
Directed Cognition
The process by which attention is guided by internal goals and external stimuli, affecting how information is processed and remembered. Useful for designing user interfaces that direct user attention effectively.
Operating Model
A framework that defines how an organization operates across various functions to deliver value to customers and achieve business objectives. Crucial for aligning organizational functions and processes with strategic goals.
Wayfinding
The process of designing intuitive navigation systems within a digital product that help users easily understand their current location, navigate to desired destinations, and efficiently complete tasks. Crucial for enhancing user experience, reducing cognitive load, and ensuring users can achieve their goals seamlessly.
Prioritization Matrix
A decision-making tool that helps prioritize tasks or projects based on specific criteria, such as impact and effort. Essential for effective project management and resource allocation.
Commitment Device
A technique or tool used to lock oneself into following through on a commitment, often by adding a cost to failing to do so. Useful for designing interventions that help users stick to their goals and commitments.
Design Strategy
An approach to design that aligns design activities with strategic business goals, ensuring that design contributes to overall organizational success. Essential for integrating design into the strategic planning process and achieving business objectives.
Backward Chaining
An inference method used in AI and expert systems where reasoning starts from the goal and works backward to determine the necessary conditions. Important for developing intelligent systems that can solve complex problems by working from desired outcomes.
Cognitive Load Theory
A theory that explains how the amount of mental effort required to process information can impact user experience and task performance. Important for designing user interfaces that minimize unnecessary cognitive effort, enhancing usability and user satisfaction.
Backcasting
A planning method that starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify steps to achieve that future. Important for strategic planning and setting long-term goals in design and development.
Feature-Less Roadmap
A strategic planning tool that focuses on outcomes and objectives rather than specific features, allowing for flexibility in achieving goals. Important for maintaining strategic focus and adaptability in product development.
Product Requirements
Product Requirements is a document that outlines the essential features, functionalities, and constraints of a product. Crucial for guiding the development process and ensuring all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the product's goals.
PI Planning
Program Increment (PI) Planning is a cadence-based event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train, aligning teams on goals and priorities for the next increment. Crucial for aligning teams, setting goals, and planning work.
Performance Load
The mental and physical effort required to complete a task, influencing user experience and performance. Crucial for designing systems that minimize cognitive and physical load, enhancing usability and efficiency.
SOM
Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM) is the portion of the Serviceable Addressable Market that a company can realistically capture. Essential for setting achievable sales and market share goals.
Grit
The perseverance and passion for long-term goals, often seen as a key trait for success. Important for understanding and fostering resilience and persistence in design and product development.
Kanban Roadmap
A strategic planning tool that outlines the future direction of a project or product using Kanban principles, emphasizing continuous delivery and improvement. Important for aligning team efforts and maintaining focus on long-term goals.
BPA
Business Process Automation (BPA) refers to the use of technology to automate complex business processes. Essential for streamlining operations, reducing manual effort, and increasing efficiency in recurring tasks.
Contextual Inquiry
A field research method where researchers observe and interview users in their natural environment to understand their tasks and challenges. Crucial for gaining authentic insights into user behavior and needs.
Program Management
The process of managing multiple related projects in a coordinated way to achieve strategic business objectives. Crucial for ensuring alignment and efficiency across multiple projects to achieve broader goals.
WTW
Walk the Wall (WTW) is a practice where team members physically move along a wall displaying their project's progress, discussing and updating tasks. Essential for fostering team collaboration and ensuring transparency in project status.
Digital Product Manager
A role focused on overseeing the development, launch, and lifecycle of digital products, ensuring they meet market needs and business goals. Essential for integrating digital product strategy and development.
Technical Product Manager
A role that involves overseeing the development and improvement of technical products, ensuring they meet user needs and business goals. Crucial for bridging the gap between technical teams and business objectives, ensuring successful product development.
System Two
A mode of thinking, derived from Dual Process Theory, that is slow, deliberate, and analytical, requiring more cognitive effort and conscious reasoning. Crucial for designing complex tasks and interfaces that require thoughtful decision-making and problem-solving, ensuring they are clear and logical for users.
Gamification
The application of game-design elements and principles in non-game contexts to engage and motivate people to achieve their goals. Crucial for enhancing user engagement and motivation in various contexts.
Product Backlog
A prioritized list of features, enhancements, and fixes that are intended to be addressed in future product development cycles. Essential for managing and planning product development activities efficiently.
Cognitive Walkthrough
A usability evaluation method where evaluators walk through tasks to identify potential user difficulties. Essential for improving user interfaces and ensuring usability.
Change Management
The systematic approach to dealing with the transition or transformation of an organization's goals, processes, or technologies. Essential for managing and facilitating successful organizational changes.
User Story Mapping
A visual technique used in Agile development to arrange user stories in a way that helps teams understand the user journey and prioritize work effectively. Crucial for ensuring that development efforts are aligned with user needs and priorities throughout the project.
Product Portfolio Manager
A professional responsible for overseeing and optimizing a company's portfolio of products, ensuring they align with strategic goals and market demands. Crucial for managing a diverse range of products and maximizing their market impact.
Reward Substitution
A strategy where less immediate or tangible rewards are substituted with more immediate or tangible ones to encourage desired behaviors. Important for designing systems that leverage immediate incentives to promote long-term goals.
Business Acumen
The ability to understand and deal with various business situations, making sound decisions to ensure successful outcomes. Important for designers to align their work with business goals and make informed decisions.
Burndown Chart
A graphical representation showing the amount of work remaining versus time, used in agile project management to track progress. Crucial for managing project progress and ensuring timely completion of tasks.
Brand Strategy
A long-term plan for the development and management of a brand to achieve specific goals. Essential for guiding brand development and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
Knowledge Engineering
The process of integrating knowledge into computer systems to solve complex problems, often used in AI development. Important for developing intelligent systems that can perform complex tasks and support decision-making in digital products.
80/20 Rule
A principle stating that 80% of effects come from 20% of causes, often used to prioritize tasks and identify key areas of focus. Essential for prioritizing tasks and focusing efforts on the most impactful areas.
Top-Down Product Strategy
A strategic approach where decisions and direction are set by top-level management and flow down through the organization, often aligned with overarching business goals. Crucial for ensuring strategic alignment and coherence across all levels of an organization.
Motivation Wave
A concept describing how motivation fluctuates over time, influenced by various factors such as goals, rewards, and external circumstances. Crucial for designing systems that align with users' motivational states to maximize engagement and productivity.
PMO
A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized unit within an organization that oversees and standardizes project management practices. Essential for ensuring consistency, efficiency, and alignment with strategic goals across projects.
Decision Tree
A tree-like model of decisions and their possible consequences, used in data mining and machine learning for both classification and regression tasks. Valuable for creating interpretable models in digital product design and user behavior analysis.
Business Viability
The potential for a project or solution to be economically sustainable and profitable. Important for ensuring that design and development efforts align with business goals and market demands.
PAR
Performance and Accountability Reporting (PAR) is a comprehensive document that outlines an organization's performance in achieving its goals and its accountability in managing resources. This report is essential for transparency, governance, and continuous improvement.
Brand Management
The process of developing and maintaining a brand to ensure it meets business goals and customer expectations. Crucial for sustaining brand equity and achieving long-term success.
Tribe
A collection of multiple squads working in the same domain or on related projects, typically consisting of 40-150 people. Important for ensuring alignment and coordination across related squads, fostering a larger community with shared goals.
Seven Stages of Action
A model by Don Norman outlining the cognitive steps users take when interacting with a system: goal formation, planning, specifying, performing, perceiving, interpreting, and comparing. Important for designing user-friendly and effective products by understanding and supporting user behavior at each stage.
Journey Mapping
A technique that visualizes the process users go through to achieve a goal with a product or service. Essential for identifying pain points and optimizing user interactions to improve overall experience.
Gantt Chart
A type of bar chart that represents a project schedule, showing the start and finish dates of elements within the project. Important for planning and visualizing project timelines and dependencies.
DEEP Backlog
Detailed, Estimated, Emergent, and Prioritized (DEEP) is an agile project management framework for a well-maintained product backlog. Important for maintaining a clear and actionable backlog in agile methodologies.
CRO
Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is the systematic process of increasing the percentage of website visitors who take a desired action, such as making a purchase or filling out a form. Crucial for improving user engagement and achieving business goals.
Future Orientation
The extent to which individuals or organizations plan for and consider the long-term consequences of their actions. Crucial for designing strategies and products that are sustainable and adaptable over time.
AI Pre-Training
The process of training an AI model on a large dataset before fine-tuning it for a specific task. Crucial for building robust AI models that perform well on various tasks.
Surrogation
The process by which a measure or metric comes to replace the underlying objective it is intended to represent, leading to distorted decision-making. Important for ensuring that metrics accurately reflect true objectives and designing systems that prevent metric manipulation.