No matter how much technology improves to help us sense and respond we continue to run up against the risky onslaught of prescriptive certainty.
The Tyranny of Transparency
Posted on January 8, 2024.OKRs bring transparency to your organization that reveals where you were wrong. This is terrifying. How do we make it easier to value this?
Stop saying MVP
Posted on December 18, 2023.We've been using the phrase MVP for over a decade. It's long lost its true intent. Let's ditch it in favor of new language.
Case Study: How 3 startups built their customer discovery practice
Posted on September 11, 2023.3 startups share how they think about and execute customer research and the impact it's had on their business
Some products are mandated. They shouldn’t suck.
Posted on August 28, 2023.You’re going to work on projects that don’t make sense to you. This doesn’t mean your work should be of a lower quality. Here’s why.
Forget Agile. The goal is agility.
Posted on May 15, 2023.We are always going to make a plan. Inevitably parts of that plan are going to be wrong. What you do at that moment makes all the difference.
Product managers are navigators of uncertainty
Posted on April 17, 2023.Modern product managers are not in charge of the production line in the feature factory. They job is to navigate a product through the uncertainty of idea to production.
Case Study: How product management saved Fender guitars
Posted on March 13, 2023.There are no short cuts to product success. This case study shows how Fender guitars used solid product management work to discover and define a winning, modern product strategy.
Bias for action
Posted on February 13, 2023.Analysis paralysis is a team momentum killer. Biasing for action builds both learning and decision making chops. Here's how.
Why aren’t learning and experimentation corporate values?
Posted on January 30, 2023.Despite decades of advice and proof that building learning into our work improves results, organisations are still resistant. Why is that?