Connected is now part of Thoughtworks. To learn more about Thoughtworks Canada, click here

Blog

Tue Nov 29

  • Software Development,
  • Strategy

Art of Controlled Burn in Engineering Management

The idea of a Controlled Burn is simple; create a small fire that you fully control. The assumption is that were you to do nothing, a much larger disaster would occur. In agile, no team likes disruptions; rather, everyone prefers to work like well-oiled machines. This begs the question - can we apply a strategy that looks very similar to firefighters and utilizes controlled disruptions rather than waiting for a full-blown disaster to occur?

Art of Controlled Burn in Engineering Management

Wed Nov 9

  • Product Thinking,
  • Strategy

You’re Wrong & Don’t Know It: Process Biases

Process biases occur when you process information based on cognitive factors instead of concrete evidence, skewing your perception of reality, even if all the pertinent and necessary data is right in front of you. And in our third installment of You’re Wrong & Don’t Know It, discover some of the different types of process biases, their impact, and most importantly, how they can be avoided.

You’re Wrong & Don’t Know It: Process Biases

Thu Oct 13

  • Product Thinking,
  • Research,
  • Strategy

Mapping Your Product’s Ecosystem: A Product Strategy Essential

Product strategy should take all parties into consideration. It should account for the organization making the product, the environment it operates in, and the entities with whom they interact. It should assess and clearly communicate dynamic strategic threats while allowing for easy comparisons to determine differentiation. Last but not least, your product strategy should always put your customer first. Here's a how-to on plotting out the many actors, entities, and relationships involved in your forthcoming product to ensure your strategy leaves nothing to chance.

Mapping Your Product’s Ecosystem: A Product Strategy Essential

Thu Sep 22

  • Product Thinking,
  • Strategy

Defining Better Product Metrics

How do you accurately measure the success of a product launch? What information do you use to pivot your product strategy? How do you keep teams aligned on the mission? The answer to all three is product metrics. That is, of course, if you’re doing it right. Metrics are a critical element of product success, and our own @Robin shares how you and your team can ladder your goals, define your metrics, and avoid some common pitfalls along the way.

Defining Better Product Metrics

Tue Aug 30

  • Product Thinking,
  • Strategy

The Difference Between Building 0→1 vs. 1→N

By helping so many of our partners construct their most ambitious products, Joel Zien, Managing Director, Client Experience and Growth, has first-hand expertise with the differences between building 0→1 and 1→N; expertise he's more than happy to share with you. 

The Difference Between Building 0→1 vs. 1→N

Fri Aug 19

  • Design,
  • Product Thinking,
  • Research,
  • Strategy

6 Books with Underappreciated Perspectives for Innovators

Looking to refresh your practice or explore a new perspective in your approach as a product manager, UX researcher, or product designer? Connected’s Senior Design Researcher, Dr. Tyler Hale, shares recommendations of under-appreciated books with implications for new product development and innovation.

6 Books with Underappreciated Perspectives for Innovators

Wed Aug 10

  • Case Studies,
  • Client Experience,
  • Product Thinking,
  • Software Development,
  • Strategy

VTS: Simplifying the Complex Sales Process Through Custom Quote-to-Cash Implementation

Getting access to and managing real time data is a transformational opportunity for Commercial Real Estate players. It also poses a big challenge. Due to the dynamic nature of the industry, the sales process alone requires ingesting and manipulating different types of data, from various sources that touch numerous departments. How then do you simplify the complex sales process?

VTS: Simplifying the Complex Sales Process Through Custom Quote-to-Cash Implementation