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.

Startup How-to Founder Product-design

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.

Startup How-to Founder Product-design

In my previous post on how to hold one-on-ones, I abstracted different conversations that may come up into categories and types. As a refresher, I’ve noted them again here.

Management How-to

There are several topics to cover in one-on-ones. The very first one, for me, typically has more pomp and circumstance—you can read more about it in another blog post dedicated to holding your first one-on-one. After that, keeping the momentum...

Management How-to

When you feel overwhelmed with meetings and you’ve got the case of zoom fatigue, you may be tempted to dismiss the 1:1 meetings with your teams. I’d like to make a case for why they belong in your work day....

Management How-to