Untrapping Product Teams

Untrapping Product Teams

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Untrapping Product Teams
Untrapping Product Teams
How to Deal With Assumptions

How to Deal With Assumptions

A wrong way will get you in trouble. A good way will help you uncover value-drivers.

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David Pereira
Oct 11, 2023
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Once, I assumed users had a problem. A month later, I learned they didn’t have that and tasted the bitter taste of an undigestable failure. We threw a month of our work straight into the trash.

What hurt me the most about this story is how easily I could have avoided such mistakes. Over the years, I learned the importance of dealing with assumptions, whi…

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