WHY You Should Avoid Asking WHY
For a long time now, I had felt that asking Why in user interviews was putting the user on the defensive. I didnt know why this was...
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- Mar 1
- 2 min
3 Tips For User Surveys
Last saturday, a good friend of mine who is working in the founders office of a Logistics startup sent me a survey for feedback before...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Product Marketing Vs Development
In a session I was leading for IIMK's online program on Product Management last week, there was a very interesting question - "How will...
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- Feb 13
- 2 min
Scr3w AGILE! Let's go AGILE!
These days you talk to any technology business they are talking about how they follow SCRUM or SAFe or some such Agile buzzword. They...
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- Feb 6
- 2 min
Is Rework Your Enemy?
Generally everyone likes to avoid rework. There are 2 key reasons team why people like to avoid rework: There is a cost associated with...
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- Feb 4
- 2 min
Progress Over Perfection
All too often, product and technology teams strive to be perfect in the products they develop. There are several issues with chasing...
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- Feb 4
- 2 min
Is Context Switching Good?
In last weeks video we said that in the quest for faster time to value, it is alright to incur context switching costs. A few folks...
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- Feb 4
- 2 min
Optimise For Time To Value
Inevitably when technology/ engineering teams put together plans, they optimise the plan to reduce effort. What they should be doing...
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- Feb 4
- 3 min
An Argument For Persistent Teams
When any new team comes together there are 4 stages that they will go through: Form Storm Norm Perform Form is more like the formal...
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- Feb 4
- 2 min
Planning Poker
Last week we talked about estimates always being wrong using relative sizing. Planning Poker is a technique which gamifies this concept....
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- Feb 4
- 2 min
Estimates Will Always Be Wrong
Once you accept that estimates are actually guesstimates and that they will always be wrong, it is extremely liberating 😎 Let me share...
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- Feb 4
- 2 min
Finish What You Start
In the last video we talked about product teams taking longer to deliver than originally estimated. We briefly touched up the aspect of...
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- Feb 4
- 2 min
Plan Before You Start!
One of the most common issues teams face while developing products is that work takes way longer than they originally anticipated. Why...
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- Jan 13
- 3 min
Prioritise ^ 4
Prioritise! Prioritise! Prioritise! Prioritise! One of the things that Product folks have to be really good at is prioritisation. This...
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- Jan 13
- 2 min
What is not being told
If you are an early growth stage product founder, chances are that you are talking to a lot of your customers. Your customers seem to be...
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- Oct 27, 2022
- 3 min
Grow Like The Roots of a Tree - Deep and Wide!
A few months back, I was talking to a founder in a growth stage product in the logistics payment space. He asked me how to tie in...
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- Oct 27, 2022
- 2 min
Find Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)
As we discussed in last week’s video, when you go from a 5 member product team to a 15-20 member team, there is more to it than just...
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- May 6, 2022
- 3 min
Strategy 101: Lessons From My 18 Year old Son
Last year my son was finishing school and totally confused about what to study at university. The most obvious choice would have been for...
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- Apr 25, 2022
- 3 min
Product lifecycle - A practitioners Perspective
One of the challenges of Product Management is managing a product through the different stages of its product lifecycle. What is the...
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- Apr 18, 2022
- 2 min
Understanding Value Based Pricing - Lessons from a Surgeon
Last week I physically met one of my cousins after over 2 years. He is a doctor who has super specialised in oncology + gynecology. He...
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