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Note that while doing product discovery, certain tools and techniques serve both to facilitate collaboration as well as to provide an artifact as an output of that collaboration. Two very popular examples of that are prototypes and story maps.
Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
Indeed, this is what has happened at AutoTrader UK, where teams are no longer funded annually to build a set of features. Instead, the organization now checks in with each team on a quarterly basis to see how it’s tracking against initiative goals. Initiative goals are quantitative and based on changing customer behavior in some way that benefits the business. Teams get funded to change these behaviors, one quarter at a time. As the quarter nears its end the company assesses, with the team, whether it’s worthwhile to continue working toward those outcomes. If so, the team gets another quarter’s worth of runway. If not, it moves on to a new initiative.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
The reason people make this mistake? Few have discovered AI’s premier use case: as a thought partner.
I’ve personally taught more than 2,000 early adopters about AI (and Section has taught over 15,000). Most of them use AI as an assistant — summarizing documents or contracts, writing first drafts, transcribing or translating documents, etc.
But very few people are using AI to “think.” When I talk to those who do, they share that use case almost like a secret. They’re amazed AI can act as a trusted adviser — and reliably gut-check decisions, pre-empt the boss’s feedback, or outline options.
Thought Partner
Scott Galloway
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