Testing prototypes: dreams can be really powerful

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In the last article I was writing about the prototyping. Actually, we spent a lot of time doing that for mobile applications we create, as we definitely need some way to estimate our ideas before they are developed. The next step – when you have the prototype ready – to show it to your users. On one hand you want to give the feedback from people as soon as possible, but on the other hand to get tha feedback you need to show them something that works.

So how we would test our rapid prototypes with users?

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Intrinsic motivations for PMs and over-justification effect

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I have spent a lot of time thinking about working fun, creating that atmosphere of the excitement and strong internal motivation in the teams. So when I watched the lectures by Kevin Werbach on Coursera about the intrinsic motivation I wanted to stand up and yell “Got it!”. After thinking for 5 min more I realized, that there is no silver bullet, but again – smart people have thought about that for a long time and wrote a lot of books, which I should read)). So it is the long way ahead.

It all starts when we are talking about rewards.

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