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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Since we do not care what, if any, problem we are solving, validation is the perfect tool. "Find us a story that proves us right." There are various names for this. @miniver.bsky.social calls it decision-based evidence making. Wikipedia calls it Morton's Fork. Either way it's malpractice.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Astute readers might ask - if not from research, how does the initial thing being built actually get defined? I'm glad you asked. Items get onto the roadmap through a process called "ideation" which is when product managers think up things that would sound cool in a case study on their LinkedIn.

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Stop inventing product problems; start solving customer problems

Low-performing teams choose problems based on what they’d like to solve rather than what their customers need.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is analogous to resume-driven development, which is when software developers spend their time "refactoring" (changing code that works into code that doesn't work) the product to use the latest and greatest frameworks, for the purpose of adding them to their resume.

Fake Oreilly book cover for Expert Resume Driven Development, the passionate functional micro-serviced approach

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