The Product Person
Going fast and breaking things has become a ubiquitous phrase in product management, akin to the widely adopted Agile Manifesto. In fact, there are so many variations of this mindset. Fail fast and learn faster. Speed is a currency. Time...
My goal is to help people practice self-care in a meaningful way. However, before diving into product ideas, I needed to address several unknowns and assumptions.
Lately, I found myself scrolling through startup forums and noticed a common theme. People are notoriously protective of their ideas.
I attended a local networking event to meet new people for my undercover problem discovery work. My primary goal was to get people talking and learn about their current struggles and how they’re trying to solve them.
To avoid the pitfall of making assumptions when developing a new product, I opted for some undercover user research instead of building first and then adding scientific rigor to validate my idea.