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Beyond the Hype: Bring AI and Human Needs Together with Jobs-to-be-Done

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date May 26, 2024
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Explore how the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) and AI can transform your product roadmaps from understanding needs to fulfilling them in user-centric ways.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, Design Skills, Design Strategy, Ethics, Facilitation, Hypothesis, JTBD, Problem Framing, Product Definition, Product Management, prototyping, Requirements Prioritization, User Experience, User Research

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Crafting Customer-Centric Roadmaps: A Jobs-to-be-Done Approach to Roadmap Planning and Better Backlog Grooming

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date December 10, 2023
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With a combination of User Story Mapping, Jobs-to-be-Done hierarchy, and Abstraction Laddering to facilitate strategy discussions, we can translate user needs into product functionalities while emphasizing shared goals and enabling stakeholders to navigate product development with clarity and a shared vision. (Photo by Sébastien BONNEVAL on Pexels.com)

Learn how using JTBD injects user-centricity into every roadmap planning and backlog grooming activity, allowing you to prioritize effectively and craft impactful product experiences.

Tags Agile, Collaboration, Design Strategy, Facilitation, Jeff Patton, Jim Kalbach, JTBD, Outcomes over Outputs, Product Definition, Product Management, Requirements Prioritization, SAP, Shared Understanding, Software Development Process, Stakeholder Analysis and Management, Teamwork, Visioneering

Design Strategy Talks & Workshops

Building Thought Leadership Skills

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date August 22, 2023
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Learn how combining thought leadership with other design and strategy skills can increase designers' and strategists' ability to influence business decisions (Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com).

Discover how combining thought leadership with strategic skills can enhance a designer’s ability to influence business decisions.

Tags Collaboration, Creative Process, Decision Making, Design Review, Design Skills, Facilitation, Leadership, Stakeholder Analysis and Management, Storytelling, Thought Leadership, Trust Building, Visioneering

Design Strategy Project Management Talks & Workshops

Presentation and Storytelling Skills for Strategy Development and Stakeholder Engagement

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date July 26, 2023
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Learn about the significance of presentation and storytelling skills for strategists seeking to transform their user experience vision into a tangible reality (Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com)

To drive user experience vision forward, strategists need to effectively communicate their strategies with good presentation and storytelling skills.

Tags Brené Brown, Business Decisions, Creative Process, Decision Making, Design Decisions, Design Review, Design Skills, Facilitation, Leadership, Nancy Duarte, Patrick Lencioni, Problem Framing, Psychological Safety, Storytelling, Teamwork, Thought Leadership, Trust Building, Visioneering

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2022 Year in Review

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In this post, I’m going to reflect on what was on my mind by looking back on some stats of my posts in 2022.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, Business Decisions, Collaboration, Design Strategy, Facilitation, Inspiration, JTBD, Living in Germany, Problem Framing, R.I.P., Stakeholder Analysis and Management, Teamwork, Trust Building, Visioneering

Design Innovation Readings

Watch “How to Get Started with Assumptions Mapping” with David Bland

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date October 26, 2022
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How to Get Started with Assumptions Mapping

David Bland shows how to use Assumptions Mapping to help teams refocus their experimentation efforts on what matters, instead of being distracted by what’s easy.

Tags Business Decisions, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, David Bland, Decision Making, Design Skills, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Facilitation, Hypothesis, Lean, Project Management, Shared Understanding, Teamwork, Workshops

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Watch John Cutler’s “We all agreed to this! Why didn’t it happen?” talk

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date July 28, 2022
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John Cutler explains the dynamics and the underlying forces that create decision drift!

John Cutler takes a deep dive into the dynamics of an all-too-familiar situation…. decision drift!

Tags Business Decisions, Collaboration, Decision Making, Design Decisions, Facilitation, Project Management, Requirements Prioritization, Teamwork

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Project Management, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date May 28, 2022
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Conflict arises in every team. Through Psychological Safety and with Conflict Resolution techniques we can channel the energy of conflict into productive interaction, constructive disagreement, and an open exchange of ideas, and learning from different points of view (Photo by Gratisography on Pexels.com)

Learn some Conflict Resolution techniques to channel the energy of conflict into constructive disagreement and open exchange of ideas.

Tags Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Creative Process, Decision Making, Design Review, Design Strategy, Facilitation, Innovation, Patrick Lencioni, Project Management, Psychological Safety, Shared Understanding, Stakeholder Analysis and Management, Teamwork, Trust Building, Ukraine

Design Strategy Project Management Talks & Workshops

Managing by Outcomes and Jobs to be Done

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date March 10, 2022
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Learn how to use Jobs to be Done to facilitate two-way negotiations between leadership and product teams that allows for managing by outcomes (Photo by Sora Shimazaki on Pexels.com)

Managing by Outcomes with Jobs to be Done (JTBD) can help facilitate two-way negotiations that allow for team autonomy and ownership.

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Strategy, Feedback and Design Reviews

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date February 15, 2022
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Influencing larger decisions that shape strategy starts with the smallest of decisions, including how to facilitate and incorporate feedback to designs to drive product vision forward (Photo by Ann H on Pexels.com)

Influencing larger decisions that shape strategy starts with facilitating the smallest decisions, including how to incorporate feedback into designs.