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"Your sales rep's fear is that if you talk to 'their' customer, you're going to put that revenue at risk because they don't really understand what you're going to ask." 📊 Learn how to effectively navigate resistance from other teams when conducting customer interviews,

Worthy Read: The Risks of Replatforming by Rich Mironov "A legacy system is any system that works." 💡 Thinking about replatforming your software? This post breaks down the reality of major platform migrations and why they often fail. Here's what you'll learn: 🔄 Why most

Worthy Read: "Lean In" Messages and the Illusion of Control by Grainne Fitzsimons, Aaron Kay, and Jae Yun Kim "Humans don't like injustice, and when they cannot easily fix it, they often engage in mental gymnastics to make the injustice more palatable." 🤔 New research reveals

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"Design is a messy, iterative process that often loops back on itself. When we learn that a particular solution doesn't work, we also learn something new about the opportunity space." 🎯 Learn how continuous discovery principles can be applied beyond product development to solve

Welcome to San Francisco. Now sit in traffic for an hour to go 10 miles. I guess we aren’t working from home anymore.

Things I don’t miss.

"On day one, your product outcome doesn't have to be measurable. It just has to be directional." 🎯 In this illuminating conversation between me and Hope Gurion, learn about the critical mistakes teams make when setting product outcomes: 🚫 Disguising outputs as outcomes 💰 Not

I do miss this. It’s a beautiful day for a ballgame.

Worthy Read: Much of What You're Going to Do or Say Today Is Not Essential by Shane Parrish "Most of what we say and do is not essential. Eliminate it, you'll have more time and more tranquility." - Marcus Aurelius Drowning in meetings, emails, and "urgent" tasks? This article

"Product is hard. Having a direct impact on financial metrics is hard. I think it's important for people to see how often teams fall short of revenue or cost-savings goals. This is the norm." 📊 Dive into the results of the first-ever Continuous Discovery Habits Benchmark

Worthy Read: TBM 25/53: Persistent Models vs. Point-In-Time Goals by John Cutler "Without persistent models, teams are always chasing their tails." 📈 Want to understand the difference between persistent models and point-in-time goals? This article explores why having a

You don’t have to do discovery for everything. Learn more about discovery: buff.ly/FSbRE3Z How do you decide how much discovery to do? Share your rubric in the comments below. #ContinuousDiscoveryHabits #prodmgmt #ux #engineering

"I firmly believe that when teams work on one outcome at a time, they have a greater overall impact. When teams are split across multiple outcomes, they get pulled in too many directions and make incremental progress on each at best." 📊 Key insights from the 2022 CDH Benchmark

Worthy Read: Communities of Practice: What They Are, What They Do, And What I’m Hoping to Learn by Petra Wille "Pro athletes don't have a match every day. They spend a good amount of their time on training. While athletes spend 95% of their time on training and 5% of their time

Worthy Read: 4 Tips to Adapt Agile Product Management to Your Team’s Processes by Abbie Kouzmanoff "Product management is an art, not a science. The best way to do Agile is the way that works best for you." 🎨 Feeling like you're not doing Agile "the right way"? You're not

"The irony is, I think when we have a learning culture, we do perform. But a performing culture does not always result in performing, and it rarely results in learning." Hope Gurion and I explore how to hold empowered product teams accountable to outcomes. We cover: 🎯 The

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