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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.
When you define your quarterly goals, you should pick a Working-Set of three to five ideas to test per key result. These ideas can come from the Candidates list, or are generated on-demand through research and ideation. These are the ideas that you’ll test and eventually launch, if they show good evidence.
Evidence-Guided
Itamar Gilad
Product evangelism is, as Guy Kawasaki put it years ago, “selling the dream.” It's helping people imagine the future and inspiring them to help create that future. ... If you're a product manager—especially at a large company—and you're not good at evangelism, there's a very strong chance that your product efforts will get derailed before they see the light of day. And even if product does manage to ship, it will likely go the way of thousands of other large company efforts and wither on the vine. We've talked about how important it is to have a team of missionaries, not mercenaries, and evangelism is a key responsibility to make this happen. The responsibility for this falls primarily on the product manager.
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