The Product Market-Fit Pyramid

One of the most beautifully striking diagrams I’ve seen in the past months was the Product Market-Fit…

The value of mental models — Impact Map & Opportunity Solution Tree

The Hidden Danger of Happy Starts in Product Development

Retention as the North Star

In the previous blog post I wrote why I don’t believe in MAUs, and why…

Do a few things very well

My product strategy philosophy usually sits on focusing on a very specific…

Why I don’t believe in Monthly Active Users

The main metric should be about measuring if the customers are achieving what the product was purposed to do.

The eternal challenge of (in)accurate estimates

In 1975 Fred Brooks wrote “The Mythical Man Month” —  a book on the various causes of scheduling failures, based on his experience at IBM…

The unpredictability of Discovery work: managing expectations in an outcome-based roadmap

Managing expectations is a skill every one of us needs regardless of our role: give people wrong expectations and they’ll be unhappy, even if what you end up delivering is…

Prioritization begins in strategy

Prioritization is an ever-present activity during product development: there’s constant decision-making about which features should be inserted in the roadmap and backlog, and in which order.

Improving Product Delivery Process with Deep Dives and Constraints

One of the biggest pains during the course of product development at Whitesmith was the constant iterations in features due to…