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Build for the user, not the roadmap
The roadmap is a business document. Users don't care about it. They care about whether the product solves their problem. They care about whether it's fast, clear, and worth comi...
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There are no PM secrets. Just fundamentals done well.
A decade in product and the problems are always the same. Different industries, different team sizes, different tech stacks — the surface changes. Underneath it's always some ve...
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Your MVP will fail. That's the point.
The point of an MVP isn't to ship a small successful product. It's to find out, as quickly and cheaply as possible, what users actually want. Most teams forget that. They build ...
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Discovery isn't a phase. It's a habit.
Most teams treat discovery as a phase. There's a kickoff, a few weeks of research, a synthesis deck, and then the team moves to build. Discovery is something you do at the start...
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Empathy isn't soft. It's how you build the right thing.
Empathy gets dismissed as a soft skill. Something for the people side of the job, irrelevant to the actual decisions about what to build. That framing is wrong twice over. First...
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Your roadmap means nothing if you haven't talked to users
A roadmap that wasn't built on user evidence isn't a plan. It's a wishlist with dates on it. That sounds harsh. It's also what most roadmaps actually are. Stakeholders contribut...
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