Test-n-Tell.com - making product decisions

In the last article, I mentioned Toyota's production principal Genchi Genbutsu. It's connected to another of their core principals called Genba.

I continue to digest the insights from the amazing book about Toyota production process. Another concept that could help to make product decisions called Genchi Genbutsu.

I was working on a product vision lately. I was struggling with it and I couldn’t understand why. Problem areas seemed to be obvious, product category and competitors were identifiable so as perfect customers. And yet the overall vision appeared blurry, too generic and well, quite dull.

What does an ancient Japanese philosophy have to do with Agile product development process? Why does one of the most successful car manufacturers in the world use it? What's wrong with most Agile "transformations"?

This is a purely theoretical article, I am in no way connected to Netflix, except being their customer. 

You never know how the world around will affect your product. Usually, we talk about the negative impact. Stock markets falling, new legislations, shifts in customers behaviour, fashion and so on. Sometimes though an external event might have a positive effect on our business. Take the latest situation where millions of people staying home (and rightly so). Streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime must have their numbers jump through the roof.