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What is Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD)?
For me, it's been an answer to the question of what's missing from agile and a way to create focus on outcomes over output.
Here's a few specifics: 🧵
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A must-read for anyone in Digital Product Management, highly practical, rich with company history, and grounded in academic paradigms that connect theory to real-world execution
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If you don’t have good customer discovery, a healthy dev pipeline, and the discipline to run lots of experiments, AI won’t fix that for you. This is what Hypothesis-Driven Development is about. hdd.works/beatcurve
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Microsoft's not the problem, Crowdstrike's not the problem- the problem is much deeper, but also very fixable. A 🧵:
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The smart move for companies is to simplify their computing while continually making their applications more user-centric.
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Did I mention- please buy my book? amzn.to/47NCmfV
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An airline employee checking in passengers, rebooking flights, executing checklists, does not need Windows (or MacOS)- nor does a healthcare employee checking records in an EMR/patient management tool (Epic, etc.).
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New Post: Using AI vs. Finding Your Ground Truth Supremacy
tl;dr For getting wins with AI, every company has their own domain-specific ground truth supremacy. They should be executing on it instead of waiting for big tech to do it for them.
alexandercowan.com/using-ai-…
As game-changing as AI is, many of the big tech wins will have as much to do with other fast-changing topics. Here are 5 that I think every PM should know about.
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4. Gamification
I know, I know- you've heard the buzz on this. But it's still happening, and if you learn to do it well it spikes user engagement, even for difficult (or boring) tasks.
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5. Declarative Design
Bear with me, but as AI makes it easier to create apps, PM's need to get better at describing success them. And yes, it's the topic of my book, HDD.
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