Improve Your Product Decisions
You make countless decisions every day. Make sure they count.
Start with: Improve These 8 Decisions and Build Great Products Faster
Then dive deep to learn more about each decision.
Begin with goal setting:
Once you've identified your product goals, learn how to drive idea generation:
- Stop Brainstorming and Generate Better Ideas
- That's Not Brainstorming
- How to Turn Bad Ideas Into Good Ideas
- How We Used Kindling at AfterCollege to Engage Everyone in Idea Generation
With a bunch of ideas in hand, you need to decide what to build next:
- Why Testing Everything Doesn't Work
- The Simplest (And Most Important) Question You Face as a Product Leader
How you build matters as much as what you build:
Knowing what is working and what isn't, comes down to how you measure success:
Regardless of what you build, often the most critical decisions are around what you communicate and when:
And don't underestimate the value of knowing your own limitations when it comes to making decisions and how to overcome them:
- Be Prepared to Be Wrong
- Stop Asking Whether or Not Questions
- Start an Idea Journal
- Find Someone Else Who Has Solved Your Problem Before
- Why You Only See What You Want To See
- Turn Your Inside View Outward
- How the 10/10/10 Rule Can Lead to Better Product Decisions
- You Only Prefer It That Way Because It's Familiar
- Help Others Make Good Product Decisions Too
- You Probably Suck at Estimating (And What You Can Do About It)
- Don't Overcommit to a Bad Idea
- Don't Make Snap Product Decisions
Do you have questions? Need help putting some of these ideas into practice? Teresa offers one-on-one coaching and private workshops to help teams make better product decisions. Send her an email to learn more.