Delivery Manager
A role responsible for ensuring that products and services are delivered efficiently, on time, and within budget. Crucial for managing project timelines, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
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Operational Planning
The process of setting short-term objectives and determining the actions needed to achieve them. Critical for aligning daily operations with strategic goals.
Agile Framework
A set of practices and principles that guide agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, to improve project management and product development. Important for structuring agile practices and ensuring effective project delivery.
BPMN
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a workflow, using standardized symbols and notations. Essential for creating clear, standardized diagrams that facilitate understanding and communication of business processes in digital product design.
Kanban Board
A visual tool in agile project management that displays tasks to be done, in progress, and completed, often using columns and cards. Crucial for visualizing workflow and managing tasks efficiently.
DEEP Backlog
Detailed, Estimated, Emergent, and Prioritized (DEEP) is an agile project management framework for a well-maintained product backlog. Important for maintaining a clear and actionable backlog in agile methodologies.
OODA Loop
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act (OODA) is a decision-making framework often used in strategic planning and rapid response situations. Crucial for agile decision-making and strategic planning in dynamic environments.
Scarcity Tactics
A dark pattern where availability is falsely limited to pressure users into making a purchase. Awareness of this deceptive practice is important to provide honest information about product availability.
T-Shaped Skills
A skill set that combines deep knowledge in a single area (the vertical stroke) with a broad understanding across multiple disciplines (the horizontal stroke). Valuable for fostering versatility and collaboration within teams, enhancing problem-solving and innovation.
Ontology
A structured framework for organizing information, defining the relationships between concepts within a specific domain to enable better understanding, sharing, and reuse of knowledge. Important for creating clear and consistent data models, improving communication, and enhancing the efficiency of information retrieval and management.
Activation Rate
The percentage of users who take a specific action that signifies they are engaging with a product or service. Important for measuring user engagement and the effectiveness of onboarding processes.
Sales Funnel
Often referred to as "marketing funnel", a model that represents the user journey from awareness to purchase used to analyze and optimize conversion of prospects to customers. Essential for understanding and improving the customer journey and conversion process.
Bottom-Up IA
An approach to information architecture that starts with the details and builds up to a comprehensive structure. Useful for designing flexible and detailed systems that can adapt to user needs.
Kaizen
A Japanese term meaning "continuous improvement," focusing on small, incremental changes to enhance processes and products. Crucial for fostering a culture of ongoing improvement and excellence in product design and development.
Trick Cancellation
A dark pattern where the cancellation process is intentionally complicated to discourage users from canceling. Designers must avoid complicating cancellations and respect user decisions with a straightforward process.
One Page/One Hour
A method where a document or proposal is limited to one page and created within one hour to ensure clarity and focus. Crucial for efficient communication and decision-making.
Acceptance Criteria
Specific conditions that must be met for a product or feature to be considered complete and satisfactory. Essential for product managers and developers to ensure clarity and alignment on what constitutes "done".
SAFe
SAFe is a framework designed to scale agile practices across large organizations by integrating agile and lean principles. It is widely used but criticized for its rigidity, bureaucratic structure, and potential to stifle true agile culture.
BML
Build-Measure-Learn (BML) is a feedback loop used in Lean Startup methodology where a product is built, its performance is measured, and learnings are used to make improvements. Essential for iterating quickly and efficiently to create products that better meet user needs and market demands.
CUI
Conversational User Interface (CUI) is a user interface designed to communicate with users in a conversational manner, often using natural language processing and AI. Essential for creating intuitive and engaging user experiences in digital products.
7 Wastes
A Lean methodology concept identifying seven types of waste in processes to improve efficiency. Valuable for product managers and engineers to optimize processes and eliminate inefficiencies.
Experience Design
The practice of designing products, services, and environments with a focus on the overall user experience. Essential for creating holistic and meaningful interactions.
SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software distribution model where applications are hosted by a service provider and accessed over the Internet. Crucial for enabling scalable and cost-effective software solutions for users.
Blue/Green Deployment
A deployment strategy that reduces downtime and risk by running two identical production environments, switching traffic between them. Crucial for ensuring seamless updates and minimizing disruptions in digital product deployment.
Journey Map
A visual representation of the user or customer journey, highlighting key interactions, emotions, and pain points. Essential for identifying opportunities to improve user or customer experiences.
Tree Testing
A usability technique used to evaluate the findability and labeling of topics in a website's structure by having participants find specific items in a simplified text version of the site. Crucial for improving information architecture and ensuring users can navigate a website effectively.
CSM
CSM (Customer Success Management) is a business methodology focused on ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes while using a product or service. Crucial for driving customer retention and satisfaction.
Exit Modal
A pop-up dialog that appears when a user attempts to leave a page or application, which can be used to prevent loss of progress or data, or to confirm user intent. While it can be used ethically to prevent data loss or confirm actions, designers must avoid using it to deceive, delay, block, or interfere with the user's intent, thus ensuring it does not become a dark pattern.
Rich Snippets
Enhanced search results that include additional visual or informational elements beyond the standard text, often derived from structured data on a webpage. Important for improving click-through rates and providing users with more useful information in search results.
Ivy Lee Method
A productivity technique where individuals list their six most important tasks for the next day and tackle them in order of priority. Important for enhancing focus and productivity by prioritizing tasks effectively.
OCM
Organizational Change Management (OCM) is the process of managing the people side of change to achieve desired business outcomes. Essential for ensuring successful implementation of changes within an organization.
4 P’S Marketing Mix
The four key elements of marketing: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion, used to develop marketing strategies. Important for creating comprehensive marketing strategies that effectively promote digital products.
Evaluative Research
Research conducted to assess the effectiveness, usability, and impact of a design or product. Essential for validating design decisions and improving user experiences.
RFM
Recency, Frequency, Monetary (RFM) analysis is a marketing technique used to evaluate and segment customers based on their purchasing behavior. Essential for targeting high-value customers and optimizing marketing strategies.
Black Box Testing
A testing method where the internal structure of the system is not known to the tester, focusing solely on input and output. Essential for validating the functionality of digital products from an end-user perspective.
IVR
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is an automated telephony system that interacts with callers, gathers information, and routes calls to the appropriate recipient. It improves customer service and automates information retrieval.
CPM
Cost Per Thousand (CPM) is a metric used in advertising to denote the cost of 1,000 impressions or views of an advertisement. This metric is crucial for measuring and optimizing advertising spend and reach.
Nudging
The act of designing and implementing subtle interventions to influence behavior in a predictable way. Crucial for guiding user behavior effectively without limiting freedom of choice.
12-Factor App
A methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that emphasizes best practices for development, deployment, and scalability. Important for creating scalable, maintainable, and efficient digital products.
Retrospective
A meeting held at the end of a project or development cycle, also known as a "post-mortem," to review what went well, what didn't, and how processes can be improved in the future. Crucial for continuous improvement and learning from past experiences to enhance future projects.
Biometric Inputs
The use of biological data (e.g., fingerprints, facial recognition) for user authentication and interaction with digital systems. Crucial for enhancing security and user experience through advanced authentication methods.
IoT
Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of interconnected physical devices embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, enabling them to collect and exchange data. Essential for creating smart, responsive environments and improving efficiency across various industries by enabling real-time monitoring, analysis, and automation.
The User Is Drunk
A usability testing approach where designers assume that users are easily confused and distracted, focusing on simplicity and clarity in design. Crucial for ensuring that interfaces are intuitive and easy to use under various conditions.
CPC
Cost Per Click (CPC) is an online advertising model where the advertiser pays each time a user clicks on their ad. This model is crucial for measuring and optimizing the effectiveness of online advertising campaigns.
NPS
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a metric used to measure customer loyalty and satisfaction based on their likelihood to recommend a product or service to others. Crucial for gauging overall customer sentiment and predicting business growth through customer advocacy.
Yak Shaving
The process of performing a series of seemingly unrelated and often tedious tasks that are necessary to solve a larger problem. Important for recognizing and managing the indirect tasks that contribute to achieving the main objectives in digital product design.
REST
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing networked applications based on stateless, client-server communication. Essential for building scalable and efficient web services.
Beta Testing
A testing phase where a product is released to a limited audience outside the development team to identify issues and gather feedback before the final release. Essential for refining a product based on real user feedback and ensuring it meets user needs.
Incremental Innovation
The process of making small, continuous improvements to products, services, or processes over time. Important for sustaining growth and maintaining competitiveness through ongoing improvements.
Team Topology
The organizational structure and dynamics of teams within a company, designed to enhance collaboration and delivery. Important for optimizing team performance and project outcomes.
Continuous Integration
A software development practice where code changes are frequently integrated into a shared repository, with each change being verified by automated tests. Essential for catching errors early and improving the quality of software.
NIH
Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome refers to the aversion to using or buying products, research, or knowledge developed outside an organization. This mindset can hinder innovation and collaboration.
XP
eXtreme Programming (XP) is an agile software development methodology focused on customer satisfaction and continuous improvement. It enhances software quality and responsiveness to changing requirements through frequent releases of functional software.
Ethical AI Frameworks
Guidelines and principles designed to ensure that AI systems are developed and used in a manner that is ethical and responsible. Crucial for building trust and ensuring the responsible use of AI technologies.
Repeated Measures Design
A research design where the same participants are used in all conditions of an experiment, allowing for the comparison of different conditions within the same group. Essential for reducing variability and improving the reliability of experimental results.
IBP
Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a process that aligns strategic, operational, and financial planning to optimize business performance. It ensures cohesive and efficient planning across all functions.
Sunsetting
The process of phasing out or retiring a product or feature that is no longer viable or needed. Important for managing the lifecycle of digital products and ensuring resources are allocated to more valuable initiatives.
Continuous Deployment
A software development practice where code changes are automatically deployed to production without manual intervention. Important for maintaining a high level of productivity and quality in software development.
Nielsen’s Heuristics
A set of ten general principles for user interface design created by Jakob Nielsen to improve usability. Essential for evaluating and improving user interface designs.
XAI
Explainable AI (XAI) are AI systems that provide clear and understandable explanations for their decisions and actions. This transparency is crucial for building trust and confidence in AI applications across various domains.