Why The Impact Effort Prioritization Matrix Doesn’t Work
The Impact/Effort matrix is a classic product managment tool, helping to prioritize product ideas. See why often it doesn’t work correctly and how to fix.
Building your project for learning AND execution
In tech we have huge bias for execution – building things and launching them fast and with the right quality. A million underwhelming launches later, we now know we should focus on something else: Learning — systematically discovering the right product, market and business model. All execution and no learning exposes you to launching a great product …
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Analyze Your Data Like a Pro With R
The free and powerful tool statisticians love Data is now the lifeblood of any successful business. In this short article I’ll try to show how you can do powerful data analysis quickly and with relatively low effort using the open-source R programming language. Spreadsheets are nice, but R will take your data analysis skills to …
5 Presentation Tips You Never Hear
So you’re facing the audience and getting ready to present. Everyone’s attention is on you. What do you do? Here’s what I find works for me: Be Interesting — The mere fact that your audience is physically there in the room does not mean you have their undivided attention. In fact you can bet it’s divided as …
Are You Building a Cathedral?
There’s something inherently problematic about the way we plan our products and services. An uncomfortable truth that’s rarely stated. David M. Upton and Bradley R. Staats wrote the following on IT projects: “The fundamental problem with these systems is that for the most part, they’re constructed using what programmer and open source champion Eric Raymond …
How People Perceive Value
And Why It Matters So Much for Your Product René Magritte Value for user (as opposed to value of a user) is a critically important product concept. Arguably it’s at the bottom of product/market fit, product design, growth, pricing, marketing, sales, customer satisfaction… Few things help products and services succeed more than injecting them with lots …