Vous êtes confronté à des délais serrés dans la conception de produits. Comment conciliez-vous l’innovation et les contraintes de temps ?

🎯𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 🎯 Innovation doesn't happen by chance; it’s the fruit of focused effort. When deadlines loom, you need to prioritize tasks effectively. Identify the core features that make your product unique. Allocate resources to develop these first. While other aspects are important, ensure innovative elements get the attention they deserve early in the design process. This strategy creates a robust and distinctive product foundation. In UX, this might mean prioritizing user feedback sessions to refine key features. 🚀🛠️

In my experience, Product deadlines are crucial to clients. Using scrum and agile dashboards are actually very helpful on many platforms. I personally use Jira/clickup for this. Managing backend teams and prioritizing tasks are the main focus on managing deadlines. Without such dashboards, there is literally no guidelines. There were many a times where developers get stuck on something and daily scrum helps them voice out the issue and we as Project Managers/Product Owners can connect them to the proper channel to solve it rather than getting stuck at 1 hurdle for hours/days.

To work on optimizing time, which is the most valuable resource, it is necessary to establish an order of priorities and respect it by the entire team. Innovation is the result of efficiency applied to novel and disruptive solutions.

On an agile approach I feel it is very important for the entire team to use agile methodology where simply put ; all team members make their own decision at team level. This reduces the stress on decision making and reduces time constraints.

Focusing on Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and iterative testing: 1. Focus on MVPs: Develop a core version with essential features, allowing for faster iteration and user feedback. 2. Embrace iterative testing: Gather user feedback early and often through rapid prototyping and testing cycles. This helps refine your design and prioritise features based on user needs, maximising innovation within the time constraints. 3. Less can be more: Prioritise core functionalities that deliver high user value over complex features that might delay launch. 4. Lean principles + agility = faster innovation: Streamlining the design process leads to quicker iterations and time-efficient innovation.

In tight timelines, effective collaboration is crucial. Form a diverse team where each member offers unique insights. Foster open communication and rapid prototyping to iterate on ideas quickly. Utilize collaboration tools for real-time teamwork, no matter where team members are located. By creating this environment, you encourage innovation that meets urgent deadlines.

Na minha experiência reunir duas, ou no máximo três, pessoas e colocar a mão na massa do design pode ser uma ótima forma de fazer mais rápido, sem perder a qualidade. Fazer juntos, agora.

Keeping the user at the center of the design process has always yielded positive results for me. At companies like CEVIU and Careerbuilder, adopting this approach made all the difference. By engaging with the target audience early on and collecting continuous feedback, we were able to create highly relevant and successful products. Conversely, I've noticed that projects where this practice wasn't applied didn't achieve the same level of success and often resulted in wasted efforts. The key is to truly listen to the users and adjust the design based on their real needs. This practice not only optimizes the design process but also ensures that we are creating something that users truly value and want to use.

innovation means continuously refining your product through quick cycles of prototyping, feedback gathering, and improvement. It ensures you adapt quickly to market changes, learn from each iteration, and steadily enhance your product's quality and relevance

In my experience, communication is always the issue. Hence the project management platforms like clickup/jira. Also maximizing the usage of such platforms are key. No point using these systems at 10%. It should be maximized especially reporting to clients and not allowing clients to directly add on to your product backlog. There should be a gatekeeper by only allowing clients to submit a form and a view only access to progress.