Product development

Before you launch a product, you need to establish where it fits in the market, how it’s different from existing products, and why your customers should care. This is called product positioning—and this article will show you how to approach it.

Use this guide to learn about product strategy and how to leverage best practices to revitalize your strategic product planning process and achieve your business goals. 

Quality function deployment (QFD) provides a clear framework for incorporating the voice of the customer into product development, beginning with a matrix called the House of Quality. Learn how to build a House of Quality (plus try a template).

Product management ranks fifth on Glassdoor’s 2019 list of best jobs in America. But what exactly does a product manager do? And are you up to the task? Take a deep dive into the product manager career path.

As you and your team develop an API, use visuals to show how the API functions, making this information more accessible and easier to understand and encouraging collaboration. Learn how to create API diagrams (starting with our free templates).

To avoid failure, you need to take a hard look at what could go wrong and take steps to reduce the risk. Use the following guide to learn how to conduct an FMEA analysis and improve your business processes.

Learn about sprint planning and see how it can boost productivity as part of Scrum and Agile methodologies. Sprint planning template example included.

For businesses to remain competitive and valued, they need to develop good ideas swiftly and deliver them to end users. With the help of value stream mapping (VSM), organizations can scale DevOps adoption and accelerate paths to implementation without compromising the caliber of the product.

A statement of work is a document that defines a project’s objectives, scope, and deliverables. Learn what a statement of work should include, how it differs from a scope of work, and how you can improve your SoW with visuals from Lucidchart.

To prevent costly delays and keep your organization’s operations running, you need to invest in a robust release management process. Learn the five steps to planning your release management process.

Event storming is a group modeling technique that brings together stakeholders and helps them understand what is happening in a business problem or in the domain of a software program. Learn how you can start using this collaborative, visual process.

In the world of software development, it's easy to get lost in the jargon. So we've created a crash course in Agile operations for you. Discover the difference between Agile development, Agile operations, and other terms.