It’s easy to talk about idea management. It’s much harder to do it in practice. Including everyone in idea generation in a way that is productive takes effort. Collecting feedback on […]
How To Turn Bad Ideas Into Good Ideas
What’s a good idea look like? Do you think you’ll recognize it when you see it? Are you sure? Most good ideas start out as bad ideas. They are infeasible. […]
That’s Not Brainstorming
Thursday’s post, Stop Brainstorming and Generate Better Ideas, got quite the reaction, particularly on Twitter. I’m not surprised. I also reacted strongly when I first learned about the research against […]
Stop Brainstorming and Generate Better Ideas
On many teams, either a founder decides what to build or the product team does. This makes sense. In early stage companies, founders are often the product leader. The product […]
Improve These 8 Decisions and Build Great Products Faster
What color should this button be? We can only do x and y, but not z, before the deadline. Can we live with that? Sales requested a, b, and c. […]
Is Your Idea a Viable Business?
This post was written for Startup Edition. Almost everyone has at one point in their life thought, someone should make a something or another, or why doesn’t this product exist in […]
Find Someone Else Who Has Solved Your Problem Before
This post is part of a series about making better product decisions. I was recently working with our interaction designer on the design of our job posting creation form. Like many […]
Start An Idea Journal
This post is part of a series about making better product decisions. I have a friend (a skier) who decided that snowboarding needed to be more like skiing. He thought that […]