Proposal: ban the phrase "just a small change" from…
Proposal: ban the phrase "just a small change" from planning meetings. Every time I hear it, I quietly add a week to the estimate, and I have not been wrong yet.
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How do you run discovery interviews when customers only want to talk about bugs?
I'm running discovery for a new scheduling feature, and every interview turns into a support session within five minutes. Customers have a list of bugs and complaints, and they've been waiting for someone to listen. I don't want to shut them down, because the frustration is real and hearing it builds trust. But I end up with 40 minutes of bug reports and 5 minutes about the problem I'm actually trying to understand.…
Engineers, be honest: what's the most annoying thing PMs do?
Our roadmap has three columns and no dates. Here is how I sell that to sales.
Every quarter someone from sales asks me for "the roadmap with dates," and every quarter I give them the same document: three columns called Now, Next and Later, with no dates on anything past the current quarter. It took a while to make this work politically, so here is what I've learned. Why no dates A date on a roadmap item six months out is not a plan. It's a guess that becomes a promise the moment it leaves the…