Test-n-Tell.com - making product decisions

There's a myth in product management that states it's a young, not established discipline. Usually, this argument is being employed to justify someone's shitty PM practises.

Devs vs PMs. PMs vs Marketing. Marketing vs Sales. Fight!

When a teacher gets slightly tipsy on Prosecco, you might hear those words. “We have no clue what to teach”. Education is a vital area of human existence. That’s how we succeeded as species - by passing knowledge from one another. And doing it faster than any individual can learn on their own. We’ve built amazing tools to educate, such as language, books, the internet. We’ve built specialised institutions for education. They served us so well, but perhaps it’s time to reconsider.

I am gonna tell you a secret. I don't like to do customer interviews. Yes, I know. After some many articles when I say it's the most important part of PMs job - I personally don't like to do them. Until I am actually doing them.

Have you ever wonder why most of the products look quite similar? All mobile phones are just plastic/glass/metal rectangles with a screen on top. All keyboards, however shiny, are qwerty-based. Or even Windows and macOS, despite cosmetic differences, are similar in core design principals. How come everything is so similar?