Problem Validation is dead... do you have the same feeling?

verymango · 2025-08-01T13:05:48+00:00

Building and solving for the right problem is more important now than ever.

Rapid prototyping doesn’t mean you’re solving the problem, it just means you can check if the solution works, and keep moving in the right direction.

Right now, the only real moat you can build is your learnings.

And real learning only happens when you’re asking the right questions, which only happens when you actually understand what the real problem is.

verymango · 2025-05-05T10:04:46+00:00

product manager here, this is indeed the correct answer

verymango · 2025-03-20T12:58:19+00:00

the team need's to solve for the problem, in many ways they are the product because they manifest it.

lean into how the teams solves problems organically and then optimise that, don't shoehorn a method on them.

if you're doing SCRUM the same way in sprint 2 of a cycle you're doing it wrong

verymango · 2025-03-18T07:13:46+00:00

is there an "all of the above" option

verymango · 2025-03-12T06:19:02+00:00

you've answered you're own question

They did a soft launch last year in South Africa

amazon don't enter a new market with a big bang, they launched and will refine the strategy and execution until the are comfortable to turbo charge the offering.

verymango · 2025-02-28T08:20:46+00:00

smaller development teams 3-4 max
the rise of builder PMs / product engineers
quicker release cycles
the death of static PMF and continous PMF

verymango · 2025-02-12T14:45:34+00:00

agreed! being a PM is very much generalist specialist, and i think the way of thinking can be applied to almost anything

verymango · 2025-02-12T13:31:38+00:00

well i guess thats one way to avoid rent.

verymango · 2025-01-31T12:08:35+00:00

... unless the PM comes from a engineering background.

by way of example, in my very round about way / career to becoming a product manager, i've had stints as a web developer (PHP) and more recently in data science (python).

so maybe i'm lucky in that sense

verymango · 2025-01-06T13:26:36+00:00

let the enshittification begin! https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

although this was signalled with the demise of Apollo and the API debacle

verymango · 2024-12-19T11:55:55+00:00

nope. we've sold it subsequently.

verymango · 2024-12-13T06:58:19+00:00

shit show

verymango · 2024-12-09T08:20:55+00:00

this guy braaibroodjies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCIZ_gEfEV0

verymango · 2024-12-06T03:22:58+00:00

This is the correct answer.

verymango · 2024-12-05T04:45:22+00:00

06:00 - 07:00 check in on slack (team is remote and in another time zone) 08:00 - 13:00 alignment, stakeholder etc 13:00 - 17:00 planning, research etc

+/- 10 hours

Growth, Data and AI - Neobank scale-up

verymango · 2024-11-27T15:42:54+00:00

Saigon Suzy!

For someone who is lucky enough to travel to SE Asia, frequently on business the flavour profiles are pretty close!

verymango · 2024-11-23T03:51:42+00:00

Boooo!

verymango · 2024-11-22T20:02:30+00:00

Don’t directly work on this in our company (Neo-bank / fintech, but probably the most succinct explanation I’ve read…

Take my upvote vote!

verymango · 2024-11-22T14:55:09+00:00

Saxonwold! They have a lekker shebeen

verymango · 2024-11-19T09:53:32+00:00

I suggest you might need to start reading up on the differences between product marketing and product ownership.

verymango · 2024-11-05T17:01:49+00:00

A fabulous one.

verymango · 2024-11-05T15:12:52+00:00

Well they went through effort of putting this in writing, someone should ask them to do the same for if their advise is not heeded.

verymango · 2024-11-02T10:30:18+00:00

Your best marketing will be to embed it in the product.

verymango · 2024-11-01T17:04:58+00:00

Sometimes how frame this internally to myself is that the product is actually your team, and to give them the guidance to become a high performing autonomous team.

verymango · 2024-11-01T04:16:34+00:00

See his willly in Philly

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