Saying no is a huge part of excelling in your product practice. If you say yes to every request that comes your way—whether from customers, salespeople, or executives—you can quickly […]
Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t)
Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. It’s a simple visual that packs a lot […]
Adopting a Continuous Discovery Mindset Across the Organization
I teach two courses at Northwestern University. I want to share a little bit more about the work that I am doing there as I think it’s relevant for people […]
Stop Validating & Start Co-Creating
Meet Sally and Pam. Sally is a product manager, Pam a user experience designer, and they are working on a new mobile app. They’ve conducted customer interviews, defined their MVP, […]
4 Powerful Ways to Use Rapid Prototyping to Drive Product Success
When you hear the term “rapid prototyping,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For most of us who work with digital products, we tend to think of wireframes […]
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 […]
3 Best Practices for Adopting Continuous Product Discovery
It’s easy to think you already do continuous product discovery. Most of the teams that I work with come into coaching thinking that they don’t need help. They’ve read the […]
The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery
Product management is evolving quickly. The days of gathering requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in long product requirements documents are vanishing. We no longer take months or years […]
