Nick Leffler

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

One of the best ways I can think of to ensure your business partners are unpleasantly surprised is to show minimal updates, reduce communications to only touch-point meetings, and spring the final product on them all at once. If you show the product along the way there’s bound to be confusion. No major changes, just bug fixes.

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Nick Leffler

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Nobody wants or needs to see the mess that is created, just the final beautiful finished product that emerges from the kitchen. Another great example is Atlassian who collects data and talks directly from customers while giving them a view of the products and modifications they’re developing. John Stepper. On A Personal Level.

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Nick Leffler

JANUARY 27, 2016

The changes they make to their products which are truly innovative and new are simple and relatively small. As I was thinking about this issue, I thought how hanging on causes problems for companies and the hanger oners. Contrary to how major these changes are, the uproar can sometimes be unfitting.

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Nick Leffler

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The more iterations you go through, the higher quality the final product is what I always say. I think the questions went through about 10 different drafts and weren’t finalized until the week before chat2lrn. What examples of #LHoL have you seen displayed by others?

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Nick Leffler

MAY 5, 2015

The revival it creates is excellent, although I have to admit it’s hard to sit still after so much productive time. Taking a little time (how much time is up to you!) and resting can feel great. I’ve slowed down a little the past month, but not like the past few days.

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Nick Leffler

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It usually ends with a product that’s IT centered, not human centered. It’s usually the same process of silos, miscommunication, lack of information sharing, withholding the product until the end (or alpha), then being stuck with it until an attempt is made to fix it then the process happens all over again.

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Nick Leffler

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When creating any product, it’s important for at least certain people to see the progress. You don’t just want to show someone a finished product and hope they like it, you want to know they like it before you’ve done too much work. I was reminded of my analogy about the chef which is a good one.

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