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27 Thoughts on Product Management
Riding the train this morning, I thought about what it takes to be a Product Manger. I was design roles for ten years, and product/business roles for another ten, but I (and others) write much less...
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Designer as Founder: Week One Class Notes
I’ve begun teaching a class at CCA called Designer as Founder. Having made that transition myself, and with the rise of The Designer Fund and design as competitive advantage being touted by folks like...
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Living Lean
If I were to explain Lean Startup as briefly as I’m able, I’d say it’s an approach where you form a hypothesis about business viability then test that hypothesis in the smallest possible way to see if...
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Designer as Founder: Week Two Class Notes
This week the students presented the insights they gained from talking to users and how the evolved the business model canvas. They then picked groups and selected the theme/market they are exploring....
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The Art of the OKR
I wrote a book on using OKRs called Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results Get it on Amazon or Gumroad As well, I run OKR workshops to get you started if you...
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Designer Founder Class Week Three
This week I was off to Amsterdam to present Executioner’s Tale at Interactions 14. The lovely Ms Erin Malone substituted for me, taking the students through personas and Empathy maps. Here is the...
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Designer as Founder Week Five
The big win of the week was an exercise we did together. Students went through the user research and pulled out all the pains, and wrote them on post-its. They then mapped them against axis of...
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Customer Development with Participatory Roadmaps
When we talk about Minimum Viable Product, we often forget to discuss what it means to be viable. But it’s simple. A viable product does the thing its target market desperately wants done. The...
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OKR Mistakes (and how to fix them)
I’ve been having a lot of great conversations lately about the nitty-gritty of implementing OKRs as people try and often fail. There are the patterns that lead to challenges in using OKRs You set too...
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