5 steps to enable your board to govern a product-led organisation — It’s about time product plays a bigger role in the boardroom. In response to the dynamic global environment and corresponding pace of change, many organisations and their boards have responded by placing digital transformation at the top of the agenda. Unfortunately, the success rate for digital transformation is not good…

In the previous article of this five-part series, we covered the creation of hypothesis based on identifying the riskiest assumptions behind your solution. In this final installment of the series on solving problems, I’ll cover off how you might test your hypothesis as well as the process of managing your…

In the previous article we identified your riskiest assumptions. The value of this exercise is that we’ve reduced down the number of assumptions we need to immediately validate by over half! This provides major productivity and efficiency benefits as part of your problem solving efforts. The position of the assumptions…

In the second article of this five part series, I outlined how you might go about progressing from your initial problem framing through to the point of completing the questions in your issue tree. In this article, I’ll outline how we convert the questions in your issue tree to assumptions…

In the first article in this series, I outlined the steps to create a first draft of your problem statement. From there I introduced the issue tree as a useful tool to structure the underlying issues and questions associated with your problem statement. While you may be able to fill…

Requirements are actually hypothesis and projects are really just experiments. David Bland, Testing Business Ideas The best product managers and product designers are detectives at heart. They are curious, creative and tirelessly pursue answers to some of the most complex questions. Above all, product managers solve problems. Customer problems. The problem solving process never ends. With the pace…

There seems to be a canvas for everything these days. Alexander Osterwalder from Strategyzer can take credit for much of this with the creation of the Business Model model canvas and distribution under creative commons license. Some of the other canvases you may have used or heard of are the…

From the age of 12 to 14 I was obsessed with the game of chess. I read books on it, made my own chess set at school and competed in the school chess club. …

Ash Maurya, the creator of the lean canvas, famously coined the phrase ‘the business model is the product’. Maurya’s point was that most of us are more passionate about our solution than any other part of the business model. …