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A/B Test

Some of you are reading this as “A/B Test”, the other seven of you as “Split Test”. This very scientific method will help the Devil’s Dictionary of Product Management choose which name to use for this entry in future print editions.

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Landing page {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

A person’s first point of contact with your web site guaranteed to bounce them away.

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Product Management {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

Product management is…

  • The responsibility for turning the wrong idea into something profitable without authority, resources, or time.
  • The art of using social skills to persuade people more…
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Product roadmap {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

A work of fantasy inducing in stakeholders a shared delusion of a hopeful future…

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Split-test

Some of you are reading this as “Split Test”, the other seven of you as “A/B Test”. This scientific method will help the Devil’s Dictionary of Product Management team to choose which name to use for this entry in future print editions.

See A/B Test

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Diffusion of Innovation

Love spreads. So do good ideas. And new practices. All like an infectious disease, spreading across social networks…

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Theory of Constraints

Flow is everything. Unclog one bottleneck, reveal another. Repeat.

See: Velocity. from Goldratt’s The Goal. more.

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Digital Sharecropping

Put up a site/app/service/device that sucks people in. Sell their volunteered attention, activity, identity, and creative work to advertisers and personal data traffickers. Stiff the poor sharecroppers.

See: “If you didn’t pay, you are the product.”

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Velocity

The rate at which product development frustrates customers.

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Synergy Trap

The Mergers & Acquisitions version of glowing romantic infatuation crushed by harsh marital reality. #NotBetterTogether

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