In this short video, I address the most common question I’ve received since releasing my book Continuous Discovery Habits: Why didn’t you include my role in the product trio? You can watch the video or read a lightly edited transcript below. Who should you include in your product trio? Does a product trio exclude everyone […]
Core Concept: Collaborative Decision-Making in a Product Trio
In this short video, I walk through what decision-making looks like in a product trio. If you missed the first video in this series, be sure to check that out first: What’s a product trio? You can watch the video or read a lightly edited transcript below. Do product trios really work? What do they […]
Working Remotely? 5 Ways to Help Your Product Team Thrive
Product teams should be co-located. This is an often-repeated “truth” in our industry. Today, in response to COVID-19, many companies are instituting mandatory work-from-home policies. This is making co-location impossible for many teams. Thankfully, this “truth” was already on its way to being retired. In fact, it was never true for many companies. We have […]
Why Engineers Should Participate in Discovery
Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? If yes, do you get pushback from them? Does your organization prefer that your engineers only write code? Marty Cagan, in Inspired, argues, “If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value.” I couldn’t agree more. But too […]
The Best Continuous Discovery Teams Cultivate These Mindsets
Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. You can view the video or read my slides and the full script below. Enjoy! Full Script The following script may deviate from what you see in […]
How to Improve Your Experiment Design (And Build Trust in Your Product Experiments)
I’ve got a pet peeve to share with you. If you’ve been following along with the growth of the Lean Startup and other experimental methods, you’ve probably come across this hypothesis format: We believe [this capability] Will result in [this outcome] We will have confidence to proceed when [we see these measurable signals] If you […]
Product Managers, Level Up Your Problem-Solving Skills
I’ve never met a product manager who doesn’t want to get better at what they do. The challenge is not in the desire, but in putting that desire into action. Product management isn’t a well-defined function. It’s changed rapidly over the past two decades. Most of us have had to learn on the fly, doing […]
Be Curious, Not Critical
“It’s horrible!” I was mortified. That was the feedback I received in a client meeting where we were reviewing one of my designs. The client continued, “We have a perfectly good home page, why don’t we just use that.” I was confused. We weren’t redesigning the home page. We were integrating journal content into an […]
