10 Steps to follow when creating a product development plan
Once you have started product development, keep the following ten practical steps in mind to help you ensure an actionable roadmap. What is your goal? What is the goal of the product development? This is not related to features, although the features get you there. This is related to what you ultimately want. Is it […]
How the Lean Canvas saves cost and time with product development
“it is about making it as actionable as possible while staying entrepreneur-focused” Not every product development requires the deep dive that a Business Canvas gives us. The Lean Canvas saves cost and time because as Ash Maurya, the creator of the Lean Canvas, states “it is about making it as actionable as possible while staying […]
Why the Product Canvas plays a key part in our application design and development process
Simply, the Product Canvas defines the solution and is easily translated into the Product Backlog which forms the backbone of the Agile process and is the one source of truth to which all involved can turn. Once a team has worked through the Product Vision Canvas and the Business Model Canvas, we join teams to […]
How a Vision Canvas fits in with App and Product Development
“A vision is an anchor and a hot air balloon.” – Chantal Louw As an anchor, it keeps all stakeholders engaged with a common goal and as a hot air balloon it allows the teams involved to soar beyond their imaginings. From the mundane world of what is to the new world created by […]
An introduction to the IoT Stack (part 2)
The complexity, and thus the potential of IoT, has scaled remarkably with the rapid growth in the number of connected devices. This number is placed at anywhere between Gartner’s estimate of 6.4 billion devices to IHS’s estimate of 15,4 – 17,6 billion. 1 How does IoT connect to and help the billions around the world? […]
An Introduction to the IoT Stack (part 1)
Whenever I write on technology, I think of a tool popular at workshops in introductions; explain your job to a five year old. When it comes to IoT, I usually say “I help people speak to machines” and that is usually how one thinks of IoT. To understand the IoT stack, it is easier to […]
What is the Internet of Things?
Simply put, IoT is an acronym for the Internet of Things. For me, connection is at the heart of IoT. Just as the mobile phone connects us to the people we love through a device that fits in our pocket, IoT will connect us to our homes, our cars and the devices that we use […]
Is IoT the innovation that will humanise tech?
In the 1700s, the First Industrial Revolution made many manual labour tasks redundant. Then, during the Second Industrial Revolution the advances in manufacturing and production technology enabled the adoption of telegraph and rail networks, and water and energy supply. This allowed an unprecedented movement of people that brought with it a new wave of globalisation. […]
What is IoT?
At Polymorph we work on innovative products all the time. One of the growth areas in Technology at the moment is the Internet of Things (IoT). What is the IoT? Rather than tell you, I have decided to show you. To do that, I connected my Garage Door Openers to the internet. That means I […]
Stepping up our Product Development process
Testing new software with real users during an iterative development process is a good idea. In fact, stated like that it seems pretty obvious… but being an obviously good idea does not make a thing easy to do. In 2016, we embarked on the journey to create better usability testing capability in Polymorph. So in […]
