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…

Phil Wolff in Product Hospice

May 12, 2019

Product roadmap {Product Devil’s Dictionary}

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

Phil Wolff in Product Hospice

May 12, 2019

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

Phil Wolff in Product Hospice

May 6, 2019

Diffusion of Innovation

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

Phil Wolff in Product Hospice

May 5, 2019

Theory of Constraints

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

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

Phil Wolff in Product Hospice

May 5, 2019

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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Phil Wolff in Product Hospice

May 5, 2019

Velocity

The rate at which product development frustrates customers.

Phil Wolff in Product Hospice

May 5, 2019

Synergy Trap

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