Most Product Experiments Fail. Some of the Winners Are Fake Too.
At Airbnb, Booking.com and Bing, only 8 to 15 percent of experiments win. Here is what that failure rate, and the false positives hiding among the winners, means for product discovery.
Most Product Experiments Fail. Some of the Winners Are Fake Too.
At Airbnb, Booking.com and Bing, only 8 to 15 percent of experiments win. Here is what that failure rate, and the false positives hiding among the winners, means for product discovery.
Should Your Product Have a Free Tier? Decide Where the Fence Goes First
Dropbox had 500 million registered users and about 11 million payers when it went public. A free tier is a strategy decision, not a pricing line. Where you place the limit decides who your product...
You Get Promoted for the Problem You Own, Not the Work You Do
A product manager who executes flawlessly inside a fixed scope has proven they can do the job they already have, not that they deserve a bigger one. Promotions follow scope, how much of the problem...
Discovery exists to reduce the risk of a specific decision. Match research depth to how reversible the call is, and stop when new findings stop arriving.
When a task helps everyone and advances no one, women volunteer for it 48 percent more often than men. Almost the entire product manager job is that kind of work: the glue that holds a team together...
A board full of green is not proof a program is healthy. It is often proof the red isn't reaching you. On watermelon status and what to ask for instead.