Don't Build Something Pointless

Chris Greacen
CEO

People get great software product ideas all the time. Modern software development injects reality to the picture. Agile and Lean practices, test-driven development, customer interviews: plans and teams that are tethered to reality won't float away and build something pointless.

Your Agile Transformation Will Fail

César Idrovo
Head of Business Agility, Training and Leadership Development

Software teams have been adopting Agile methods for decades. Small teams have crushed it, producing higher quality products in shorter time horizons with fewer bugs and less waste. And yet enterprise Agile transformation programs often utterly fail to produce the business outcomes their sponsors and proponents hope for. Why?

Bridging the Gap Between Development and Design

Dean Baker
Head of Design

The worlds of software design and engineering intersect and frequently intertwine. The partnership is critical, and yet we often hear stories about how the two disciplines come into conflict.

The Paradox of Wasted Effort

Chris Greacen
CEO

Software is all around us. In banks. Operating rooms. It runs the power grid. Lands the airplane. Teaches our children. It's in the voting booth, and it's in our bedrooms.

Stress-Less Deployment

Ned Holets
Director of Engineering

It’s noon at Lab Zero. Soft corporate punk plays on the hi-fi. Some people are eating lunch, talking politics. I look up from my salad. In #deploy somebody has written ‘Everything is deployed. Smoke tests are running. I’ll send an update when they’re complete.’ And I’m agitated. They added hard-boiled egg again.

12 Signs Your Client Trusts You

Chris Greacen
CEO

Your client pays your invoices. You passed all the background checks. But how do you know they trust you? We look for signs of trust from our partners, and we reinforce patterns that increase that trust. Here are some cues to watch for:

Our Love Affair With the Dashboard (Breaking Up Is Hard to Do)

Dean Baker
Head of Design

You’re reviewing the product roadmap in a meeting and you hear, “We need a dashboard.”

Painless, Repeatable, Profitable: a Continuous Research Cycle to Enable User Insights

Chris Greacen
CEO

You’ve already done some market research and run some customer surveys. Your product or feature idea meets a real need. Your data supports your decision to build the thing. We’re glad you got this far. When you work with us, we help you tune into the insights and anecdotes that keep your design and development aligned with the needs of your users.

You Got This

Chris Greacen
CEO

You talk to your customers and you really listen.

The Mythical Eight-Point Story

Shiun Hwang
Software Engineer

A developer on your team is working on an eight-point story.

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