Tag: product management
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My Product Management Toolkit (38): discovering opportunities and solutions

As product people we all know how enticing it can be to take an idea for a product or feature and simply run with it. The number of product teams I come across that will straight away test a specific idea without understanding the problem or opportunity it’s trying to address is plentiful. This observation…
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“Outcomes Over Output” (Book Review)

Over the years I’ve learned a lot from Josh Seiden, starting with “Lean UX” which he coauthored with Jeff Gothelf. Seiden recently published “Outcomes Over Output” a nifty little book (should take about 40 minutes to read), which – you guessed it – encourages readers to move from ‘making stuff’ to creating outcomes by changing…
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Poshmark (Product Review)

My quick summary of Poshmark before using it – All I know is that Poshmark is a fashion site which has enjoyed phenomenal success recently and is rumoured to IPO later this year. How does Poshmark explain itself in the first minute – “#1 way to buy and sell fashion” is the main strap-line on…
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ZocDoc (Product Review)

I’d never heard of ZocDoc before until I heard someone recently mention it on a podcast. The person in question mentioned something about an app that lets you find your local doctor. Intrigued to learn more, I decided to do a product review: My quick summary of ZocDoc before using it – I expect a…
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My Product Management Toolkit (37): Product – Market Fit Survey

Since venture capitalist Marc Andreessen introduced the concept of “product – market fit” back in 2007 there have been many different interpretations of what this concept actually means. From people using sales projections to companies applying customer satisfaction to determine product / market fit, I’ve seen companies utilising different yardsticks. I therefore thought it would…
