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Ryan Gray is Co-Founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a product engineering and design firm featured in The Lean Startup. Should your engineering department be doing product development? Two decades ago ...

In a consumer-driven economy, meeting customers' needs and wants has become paramount in generating long-term success and growth. Product development is key to maintaining and acquiring customers and ...

AI is gaining popularity among product managers and being used by companies like PepsiCo and Toyota. Generative AI can be used to brainstorm product ideas or assist in creating marketing materials.

Product development (“PD”) is a core competency for any product-oriented company, whether a Fortune 100 firm, a small engineering business, or a technology-based startup. Commercializing innovative ...

Testing product ideas is a non-trivial task that often rivals the complexity of building the actual product. Analysis from CB Insights on why startups fail found that poor market fit is the culprit in ...

The six-week sprint is a new product development strategy chosen by startups to replace unrealistic product development cycles and avoid time-consuming and wasteful traditional methodologies. The ...