Building the Right Thing the Right Way: What Does It Mean to Create a Product, or Beyond Agile? is a book that verbalizes various aspects of the product development process. Here are some notes on points that caught my attention.

• The two levers that manage product creation are interrelated:
  • Risk Management
    • Quickly detect and address requirement risks, technical risks, personnel risks, and political risks.
  • Expectation Management
    • Adjust expectations among stakeholders.
    • A timeline can serve as a means of visualizing expectations and confirming intentions.
• Naming activities in product creation:
  • Makes communication easier and fosters a shared awareness.
• Both the Product Owner and the development team cross boundaries:
  • To fulfill what the product aims to achieve, they must step into each other's domains.
• In the hypothesis validation phase, explore MVPs using a set-based approach (keeping options open) and create MVPs using a point-based approach (narrowing down options) to validate.

Thoughts

To summarize without fear of misunderstanding, this book discusses the entirety of the product development process involving Lean Development, Agile, and Scrum.

I felt that realizing this process requires a team proficient in Agile that can swiftly cycle through hypothesis validation and product improvement. While I am familiar with the cycle of hypothesis validation, teams that struggle with Scrum or vice versa need to build a solid foundation. (It is ideal to do both well, but I think that is quite challenging.)

Building the right thing the right way necessitates navigating through various uncertainties, making it very difficult.

I also want to focus on avoiding the creation of incorrect products.

Whether one can reflect on the correctness of a decision made is an important step towards the next correctness. (Poetic)

I believe that organizing correct and incorrect information guides product development. (Defining correctness is difficult, so organizing it in a binary manner is also challenging...)

The discussion on perspectives and viewpoints in the latter chapters was good. It made me realize that I still lack sufficient perspective shifts.