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Motivated Reasoning and Validating Hypotheses
Product Management

Motivated Reasoning and Validating Hypotheses

Posted on: April 8, 2019July 24, 2023

In our continuing series on managing the risk in your backlog, we look at the risk of kidding ourselves. Specifically, we use cause and effect and hypotheses to identify the assumptions in our plans, but if we don’t do it the right way, we will lie to ourselves by validating […]

Playing Whack-A-Mole With Risk
Product Management / Product Strategy

Playing Whack-A-Mole With Risk

Posted on: January 8, 2017July 25, 2023

Assumptions are interesting things – we all make them all the time, and we rarely acknowledge that we’re doing it. When it comes to developing a product strategy – or even making decisions about how best to create a product, one of these assumptions is likely to be what causes […]

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