Tag: product management
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“Big Bang Disruption” (Book Review)

After reading “Crossing the Chasm” by Geoffrey A. Moore, I read “Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the age of Devastating Innovation” by Larry Downes and Paul Nunes. I could stop the book review right here by saying that the product lifecycle of a traditional product looks very different to that of a “Big Bang Disruptor”. The…
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What is Guerrilla Testing?

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with “guerrilla testing”, but I’ve been doing it for a few years now and it’s a great way to get some quick user feedback on your product or idea. To me, guerrilla testing means going into a coffeeshop or another public place to ask people there about…
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“Crossing the Chasm” (Book Review)

I recently read both Crossing the Chasm and Big Bang Disruption, which are two books covering a similar topic: how do you position and sell innovative products in fast pace market? “Crossing the Chasm” by Geoffrey A. Moore was first published in 1991 and talks about how to bridge the “chasms” which can occur in the traditional…
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Learning more about running A/B tests

I love running A/B and multivariate (‘MVT’) tests. These are experiments designed to evaluate different design or copy variants, based on actual performance data. Instead of comparing or deciding on product options based on gut feel, an A/B or multivariate test allows to you to compare alternatives based on objective data and predefined success criteria.…
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“Thinking with Data” (Book Review)

It’s oh so easy to get immersed in analytics or big data sets without a clear idea of the questions one wants answered through data. The book Thinking with Data – How to Turn Information into Insights by Max Shron talks about how to get the most of data and how to go about looking for the…
