Doubly Good, Leigh Garland Meet Leigh Garland I've been working as a technologist, developer and service consultant for over 25 years. Beginning my work-life authoring CD-ROMs in the late 90s before making the leap onto the web, and I never looke... Meet the team 9 Apr 2024
Doubly Good, Leigh Garland Turkeys voting for Christmas? Morning everyone, and in light of the recent Intercom post and another OpenAI announcement ... perhaps we need to consider where this race is taking us? Do I fear AI? Yes and no. Today has shown both ... 1 Mar 2024
Doubly Good, Leigh Garland The Elephant in the room What do I need to know? There’s a new (ish) kind of social network - commonly referred to as the ‘Fediverse’ The Fediverse is not owned by big tech investors, or mega-rich individuals It’s gaining mom... activitypub data ownership federation fediverse mastodon pixelfed social media 23 Nov 2022
Doubly Good, Leigh Garland Managing conflicting priorities with RICE I recently joined a project as acting PM with various conflicting groups of stakeholders. I inherited a huge backlog of features, held dear to the hearts of key people. But, these were not well descri... RICE decision making planning prioritisation score 2 Feb 2022
Doubly Good, Leigh Garland The cause of death is... In my current project, we just conducted a pre-mortem on our product. It can be a really valuable way of uncovering threats to the survival and success of your product or service. So, what did we disc... Pre-mortem innovation planning prioritisation 16 Aug 2019
Doubly Good, Leigh Garland Using a big brand can hurt Too often, start-ups within large enterprises try to leverage existing brand-loyalty in order to get customers over the hump to purchase an early-stage product. Unless you provide some kind of real va... brand innovation logo product management service development 1 Apr 2019
Doubly Good, Leigh Garland Innovation vs Transformation Many large enterprises are struggling to reconcile social, economic and technological disruption. Disruptive businesses dominate entire sectors before the incumbents even know what’s happening. As a r... decision making innovation service development 21 Mar 2019
Doubly Good, Leigh Garland Spikes, POCs, Prototypes and the MVP Here I attempt to provide some clarity around what I consider the differences between Spikes, POCs, Prototypes and the MVP. Mainly so I never have to hear the phrase “Let’s just knock up a quick MVP t... MVP POC prototype spike 30 Sep 2014
