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.
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Kickoff
The initial meeting or phase where a new feature or initiative is introduced, discussed, and planned, involving all relevant stakeholders. Important for ensuring clear communication and alignment on new feature development.
Feasibility Study
An analysis that assesses the practicality and potential success of a proposed project or system. Crucial for determining the viability and planning of new initiatives.
Project Management
The abilities and knowledge required to effectively plan, execute, and close projects, including leadership, communication, time management, and risk management. Essential for ensuring successful project outcomes and achieving business objectives.
Epic
A large body of work that can be broken down into smaller tasks or user stories, used in agile project management to organize work. Essential for managing and organizing large projects in agile development.
Program Manager
A professional responsible for overseeing and coordinating multiple related projects to ensure they align with organizational goals and deliver strategic value. Essential for managing complex initiatives and ensuring successful delivery of business objectives.
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.
Definition of Ready
A set of criteria that a user story or task must meet before being accepted into the development cycle, ensuring it is actionable and clear. Essential for ensuring that tasks are well-defined and ready for development.
Hofstadter’s Law
A principle that states tasks always take longer than expected, even when considering Hofstadter's Law itself. Important for setting realistic project timelines and managing expectations in digital product development.
Escalation of Commitment
A cognitive bias where individuals or organizations continue to invest in a failing project or decision due to the amount of resources already committed. Important for designers to recognize and mitigate their own risks of continuing unsuccessful initiatives.
Greenfield
A project or venture that starts from scratch, with no constraints imposed by prior work, enabling innovation and flexibility in development. Essential for recognizing opportunities for innovation and fresh development in business initiatives.
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.
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.
Yak Shaving
The process of performing a series of seemingly unrelated and often tedious tasks that are necessary to solve a larger problem. Important for recognizing and managing the indirect tasks that contribute to achieving the main objectives in digital product design.
JAD
Joint Application Development (JAD) is a collaborative approach to gathering requirements and designing solutions in software development projects. It facilitates rapid decision-making and consensus-building by bringing together key stakeholders, including users, developers, and project managers, in structured workshop sessions.
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.
ROI
Return on Investment (ROI) is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency or profitability of an investment or compare the efficiency of different investments. Crucial for assessing the financial effectiveness of business decisions, projects, or initiatives.
Cost-Benefit
An analysis comparing the costs and benefits of a decision or project to determine its feasibility and value. Important for making informed business and design decisions.
Sense of Ownership
A psychological state where individuals feel as though the success and well-being of a project or task is their personal responsibility, akin to having an "owner's mentality.". Essential for fostering accountability, motivation, and proactive engagement within a product design team.
SRS
Software Requirements Specification (SRS) is a detailed document that outlines the functional and non-functional requirements of a software system. Crucial for ensuring clear communication and understanding between stakeholders and the development team.
Product Launch Manager
A professional responsible for overseeing the planning and execution of a product launch, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and successful market entry. Essential for managing the complexities of launching a new product and coordinating cross-functional teams.
Product Development Cycle
The series of stages a product goes through from initial concept to market release, including planning, design, development, testing, and launch. Essential for understanding the full lifecycle of product creation and bringing products to market efficiently.
RICE Scoring Model
A prioritization framework used in product management to evaluate features based on Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort. Crucial for making informed decisions about which product features to prioritize and develop.
Opportunity Solution Tree
A visual tool that maps out opportunities and the corresponding solutions, helping teams identify and prioritize where to focus their efforts. Crucial for strategic planning and ensuring alignment between problems and solutions.
Innovation Theatre
Activities that give the appearance of innovation but do not produce tangible results. Important for recognizing and avoiding ineffective innovation efforts.
Impact Mapping
A strategic planning technique that uses visual maps to align activities with business goals and user needs. Essential for ensuring that development efforts are aligned with strategic objectives.
Product Launch
The introduction of a new product to the market, involving planning, marketing, and distribution efforts to maximize its initial impact. Essential for ensuring a successful market entry and driving early adoption and sales.
PoC
Proof of Concept (PoC) is a demonstration, usually in the form of a prototype or pilot project, to verify that a concept or theory has practical potential. Crucial for validating ideas, demonstrating feasibility, and securing support for further development in product design and innovation processes.
CMM
Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a framework for improving and optimizing processes within an organization. Essential for assessing and enhancing the maturity and efficiency of processes in product design and development.
ALM
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the process of managing an application's development, maintenance, and eventual retirement throughout its lifecycle. Important for ensuring the sustainability and effectiveness of digital products over time.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) is a strategic planning tool that is applied to a business or project. Essential for strategic planning and decision-making.
BPMN
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a workflow, using standardized symbols and notations. Essential for creating clear, standardized diagrams that facilitate understanding and communication of business processes in digital product design.
Scaling Fallacy
A cognitive bias where people underestimate the complexity and challenges involved in scaling systems, processes, or businesses. Important for understanding the difficulties of scaling and designing systems that address these challenges.
MBSE
Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is a methodology that uses visual modeling to support system requirements, design, analysis, and validation activities throughout the development lifecycle. Essential for managing complex systems, improving communication among stakeholders, and enhancing the overall quality and efficiency of systems engineering processes.
ART
Agile Release Train (ART) is a long-lived team of Agile teams that, along with other stakeholders, incrementally develops, delivers, and operates one or more solutions in a value stream. Important for coordinating Agile development and delivery at scale.
SAFe
SAFe is a framework designed to scale agile practices across large organizations by integrating agile and lean principles. It is widely used but criticized for its rigidity, bureaucratic structure, and potential to stifle true agile culture.
Problem Space
The context and set of conditions surrounding a problem that needs to be solved. Essential for understanding the full scope of a problem and identifying potential solutions.
MVC
Model-View-Controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern that separates an application into three main logical components: the Model (data), the View (user interface), and the Controller (processes that handle input). Essential for creating modular, maintainable, and scalable software applications by promoting separation of concerns.
ModelOps
ModelOps (Model Operations) is a set of practices for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining machine learning models in production environments. Crucial for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of AI systems throughout their lifecycle, bridging the gap between model development and operational implementation.
Environmental Design
The process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products. Important for creating designs that are sustainable and contextually appropriate.
DMAIC
Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) is a data-driven improvement cycle used in Six Sigma. Crucial for systematically improving processes and ensuring quality in digital product development.