Let’s assume it. We do not think enough of the harm that the products we build will cause harm or damage to people. Further, we definitely do not take in consideration how anything we develop could be creating unintended consequences.
The Fifth Risk
Author: Robiert Luque
Reducing Human Risk in Product Discovery
By including the human dimension (not only user value or usability) as a risk to minimise into our products we would be having a major impact in our customers’ wellbeing and contribute to build a more human-centred future.
Hot Product Managers vs. Cool Product Managers
About Product Management, stakeholders and other demons. In McLuhan’s most relevant book “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man”, he proposes a way to categorise media according to various sensory effects associated with the media. This idea is not hard to extrapolate to other scenarios. Let’s think of communication as a whole and add it to… Continue reading Hot Product Managers vs. Cool Product Managers
Paying Data Debt
If your company is data-driven or wants to be data-driven. There are 2 kind of companies: The ones aiming to be data-drivenThe ones being data-driven If You Are if You are not There isn’t a unique correct path to become a data-driven company.The problem is not the data, the problem is to have data aligned… Continue reading Paying Data Debt
Reading “Measure What Matters”. Part I
Some notes while reading it. I started reading Measure What Matters by John Doerr. Here I’d like to share my notes as an exercise of what matters. Part One: OKRs in Action If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there.Yogi Berra Where an objective can be long-lived, rolled over for a… Continue reading Reading “Measure What Matters”. Part I
May the Loops Be With You
In the Star Wars universe everyone can be divided into two different groups based on how they perceive the Force: the ones who don’t perceive it and the ones who can feel it. So are all human on how they see the world around them: event oriented thinkers and system thinkers. Most of the people… Continue reading May the Loops Be With You
It Is All About Common Sense
Don’t try to kill a cockroach with a cannon or a bear with a water pistol. Common sense is not so common.Voltaire, 1764 Recently I was reading a great post by Martin Eriksson about the #1 Answer in Product: It depends. I love that post not only for being a wonderful summary of previous thoughts… Continue reading It Is All About Common Sense
Boring Meetings? III
Planning a cross-department project using the Loops Communication Model Let’s be clear, the meeting topic is certainly foggy in many places and there are different approaches that fail at certain point. That is a big true. But as described before it is not about the meetings but about the structure of the system behind. So… Continue reading Boring Meetings? III
Boring Meetings? II
Optimizing and preparing a meeting Attending to a meeting moderation workshop can be quite interesting to get closer to classic moderation techniques and structured meetings in order to try to listen how to tackle typical meeting problems: Too many meetingsNever-ending meetingsNot structured meetings Everyone had those. If you never faced at least one of those… Continue reading Boring Meetings? II
Boring Meetings? I
Optimizing and preparing a meeting Yes, you all hate long, senseless and tedious meetings that are not going anywhere. There are also well defined rules to not have those meetings. Set a purpose and goal, have an agenda, assign a moderator, make summaries, be free to leave the meeting if you are not needed and… Continue reading Boring Meetings? I
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