The Digital Product Degree Project is a free, open-source book. It's a collection of: Articles, resources and definitions designed to give you all the tools you need to build a digital product.
I started writing this book as I had many questions in my job, as a programmer, of how to build a digital product. When I came to start building my own products (and I slowly started unpeeling everything that goes into this) I started to see just how much goes into building a digital product.
What was frustrating was that there are so many concepts and ideas some that overlap, some that don't: Scrum, Agile, Devops, Cloud, Architecture, Programming Languages.
And most of the content online was fragmented, or highly technical. It also didn't show me how each concept would blend into the next. A lot goes into building a digital product and it can be really overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. That's why I set about writing this book.
Because writing a book takes an incredible amount of time, I'm doing it piece by piece. I'll be bringing in separate articles that I published in different publications around the internet. Eventually this should form some sort of coherent whole. This means that each article should in theory stand entirely on it's own, so you can dive in as you need.
This might explain why the chapter titles have ✓'s and ✗'s next to them. This just shows me how far that I've got and how much more I've got to do.
The goal is at the end to end up with a choppy first book draft. I want to them take this to a publisher and have it turned into a physical product. Once edited etc, it would be nice to redistribute the edited version back online for free.
If you're anything like me, a physical copy of a book is considerably more enjoyable than a markdown generated one that you have to read, hunched over your laptop.