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Blog Articles
The Product Discovery Plan
In my last article, I discussed the situation where Product Discovery is essentially not discovery at all, but rather just a mad dash of just-in-time spec writing so that the engineers can be kept busy. I discussed how important it is that the date not be driving everything at the expense of the value of what will be created.
Feed The Beast
For those that haven’t heard the term before, “feed the beast” refers to one of the most common problems with product teams, and one of the top reasons for failed projects. It’s very easy to spot. If you find a product manager that is scrambling to finish up his PRD because the developers are freeing up from their current project on Monday and the very thought of the developers not having a fresh spec ready to go sends the product manager (and especially senior management) into a panic, that’s what we call “feed the beast.”