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The concept of product discovery emerged because smart companies saw the waste in working this way. They wanted to ensure that they had sufficient evidence to believe that the solution they asked their engineers to build would successfully solve the customer or business problem it was intended to solve.
The purpose of data is *knowledge*. We shall define knowledge as “theories or models that allow you to predict the outcomes of your business actions.”
Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles
Commoncog
The most important cure is to **invest in great process**. Whatever you’re making — products, marketing, research, policy, or service — you need to have a clear, complete process for getting it done, from end-to-end. Until you do, you’ll probably be stuck in meeting hell.
Meetings are like smashing something with a hammer because you don’t have any other tools in your shop. Great process is lightweight, efficient, and adaptable. Too much is bad but not enough is worse. You need things like clear planning processes and well organized product development and design process that include all functions. And you need program managers (PgM, DpM, TpM, OMGpM) whose major job is to take care of this stuff. A great program manager can measure their worth in meetings removed.
Too Many Meetings Is Not Your Problem
Judd Antin
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