Who is Will?
William Gill (Will) is an agile advocate, scrum enthusiast and web and mobile technology geek. He is the Product Owner for Nokia Maps, maps.nokia.com. This is his personal blog and expresses his personal views on software product design and agile. williamgill.de
Author Archives: Will
7 reasons your Scrum Master may be underperforming
What do you need to have a great and effective scrum master on a team? The Scrum Master is, I think, one of the most misunderstood roles on the scrum team. It’s a critical role to ensure your team will … Continue reading
Soundtrack: Life – give your life a soundtrack
Have you ever wished your life was a movie? In the movies, there’s always the right sound effect ready to roll for every moment. Sometimes our lives need a soundtrack too. That’s why I created my first ever Windows 7 … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile, Windows Phone
Tagged app, mobile, silverlight, Soundtrack, windows, wp7
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Customer Feedback is important
We all know it’s important to think of our users first, and that user feedback is important; however all of us have to deal with products, processes and systems in our day-to-day lives in which the user was likely at … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Product Design, Product Management
Tagged airport, beijing, customer feedback, user feedback
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Advertising – the good and the bad
We all want to get paid. As ‘free’ continues to become the norm for data, information, apps and services, developers reach to advertising to fill the ‘P’ part of their profit and loss statements. Internet revenue hit $7.3 billion in … Continue reading
Posted in Product Design, Product Management, Software management
Tagged advertising
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Who cares if you’re doing scrum or not?
Have you ever heard the question: “Are you doing Scrum? I mean, really doing scrum?” Or: “If I take the Scrum textbook practices, but change one or two things to suit my business, software or people, is that still Scrum?” … Continue reading
Software update cycle: faster every day
My Atari 2600 never got a firmware update. Not a single one. Neither did any of the game cartridges that came with it. In the early days of software, ‘soft’ware was really just a different kind of hardware. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Continuous delivery, Software management
Tagged continuous delivery, releasing, software, software updates
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Move fast
The world moves fast. Your competitors move fast with it. Users move fast, too. Users are more fickle than ever before. This month’s UK WIRED magazine rated Twitter as “tired”. This for a service that’s only five years old with … Continue reading
Classic product management wisdom from one of the fathers of industrial design
In 1955 Henry Dreyfuss, one of the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century, in his book “Designing for People” wrote the following : “The successful performer in this new field is a man of many hats. He does … Continue reading
