Product Discovery
UDT Insights Jul 17, 2018
User interviews can produce confident but misleading answers when questions contain the preferred solution. Use recent events, neutral follow-up questions, and separate evidence notes to learn what people actually need.
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UDT Insights Jun 7, 2018
A project brief should help a buyer compare options, not disguise a feature list as certainty. Define the business problem, evidence, boundaries, and unresolved decisions before requesting a delivery estimate.
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UDT Insights May 7, 2018 From UDT’s knowledge archive: RAG learning materials, August 2026. Newly edited for publication.
A useful document assistant needs more than fluent answers. Prepare authorized retrieval, current sources, and tests for unsupported claims.
Read article Release Engineering
UDT Insights Apr 18, 2018 From UDT’s knowledge archive: CI/CD training notes, May 2024. Newly edited for publication.
Automation can deploy the wrong change consistently. Use staging, clear release evidence, and an explicit decision before production.
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UDT Insights Mar 15, 2018 From UDT’s knowledge archive: source document created in 2023, updated August 2026. Newly edited for publication.
A working demonstration is a start. Agree on evidence, limitations, ownership, and release checks before accepting a software handover.
Read article Project Delivery
UDT Insights Feb 17, 2018
Logged hours show effort, not automatically accepted output. Connect tasks, done criteria, acceptance, and next owners for a clearer project review.
Read article Engineering & operations
UDT Insights Jan 19, 2018
Define what can go wrong, rehearse recovery and verify business behavior before you call a release complete.
Read article Business systems
UDT Insights Dec 18, 2017
Compare real process fit, integration, operating cost and exit options before choosing a business system.
Read article AI adoption
UDT Insights Nov 16, 2017
Choose a bounded task, compare AI with today's process, and decide what evidence justifies a wider release.
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