The Product Thinking Playbook is a mapping tool that helps us plan and build better products for our clients and their customers. Consisting of various tactics, techniques, and milestones borrowed from Design Thinking, Agile Development, Lean Product Strategy, and Jobs-To-Be-Done Theory, the Product Thinking Playbook helps facilitate conversations around what you will and (just as importantly) will not do to achieve your product goals.
Do you have a sneaking suspicion that there’s a hidden danger lurking in your codebase, just waiting to spring a nasty surprise on your business? Well, you’re not alone. Technical debt is a ticking time bomb that can significantly expose your company to risk if left unaddressed. So, why do we let it accumulate? From architecture and user experience debt to code and process debt, there are many different types of technical debt. To effectively manage and reduce it, you need to understand these different types and assess your own unique vulnerabilities. By adopting a proactive approach and aligning your business goals with the long-term success and competitiveness of your software systems, you can effectively manage technical debt. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Download our Guide to Technical Debt for the best practices on how you can identify, manage, and overcome this lurking danger in your codebase. Get ahead of the game and ensure the long-term success of your business.
The first 1000 days are critical in a child’s development. Traditionally, cognitive development is lab assessed, outside the natural environment where children use cognitive skills. Suppose researchers could quantify and model how a child’s physical and social environment affects their development. In that case, new tools and measures could allow for parent-child interaction intervention, optimizing the social input that acts as scaffolding to a child’s brain development. Discover how Thoughtworks Canada (formerly Connected) helped Wellcome Leap and their Ivy League academic research partner develop a real-time data management platform to study child development for the first 1000 days (1KD) of a child’s life.
Millions of tradespeople depend on Ford pickup trucks and vans to execute their jobs and keep them safe in the process. But those same people needed something else protected – their livelihoods. Discover how Sam Harris, VP of Product at Canopy, sought to answer “What role can Ford play to protect customers’ valuables inside their vehicles?” and why he turned to Thoughtworks Canada (formerly Connected) to explore the answer in audio threat detection, and how we helped turn a feature that protects vehicles into a product company that protects livelihoods.
A Product Thinker’s toolkit needs to be robust—filled with frameworks one can pull from at the right moment to unlock product impact. Here, we walk you through the seven steps of a Thoughtworks favourite: empathy maps. On numerous discovery and delivery engagements, we’ve seen this versatile framework help product teams build better products that customers love.
In this report, we examine why hiring with the five Product Thinking People Principles – smart, kind, reliable, teachers, learners – in mind and shaping your teams around a principle-first approach is so effective for impactful product development.
A Product Thinker is only as good as their toolkit, which is why we stock ours with effective methodologies and frameworks that we can use to ensure we’re building the right thing and building it right. Here, we dive into Hypothesis-Driven Validation, taking you through each of the seven steps in the process and guiding you on the right time to use it.