Tag: product management
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My Product Management Toolkit (57): Commander’s Intent

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” General George S. Patton In the military, planners use Commander’s Intent to plan a mission. Commander’s Intent is the description and definition of what a successful mission will look like. Commander’s Intent approach feels equally…
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Human + Machine: Spotify’s ‘Algotorial Playlists’

When I think about personalised content, I think of Netflix and Spotify providing recommendations during the onboarding process based on a user’s tastes and preferences. These recommendations will then be refined and augmented as a user consumes more content. This level of personalisation is fully algorithm based, which makes it highly scalable but also prone…
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“Discovery Discipline” (Book Review)

The so-called “Double Diamond” is a method that guides a lot of product discovery. The idea behind the Double Diamond is to go through phases of divergence (generating lots of ideas) and convergence (narrowing down the number of ideas). When doing product discovery, you apply convergence / divergence to a problem and a solution. Tristan…
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Temu Pinduoduo (Product Review)

“Shop Like a Billionaire” reads the strap-line for Temu on the Google Playstore. Temu is a new eCommerce platform, operated by Pinduoduo, China’s second largest shopping app. In September ’22 Temu launched its mobile app and website, which are both available to US customers only. Temu offers products in a number of categories, ranging from…

