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Apr 21, 20266 min read

The Discovery Phase, or: The Stakeholder You Forget Fills Your Queue

Conception asks how. Discovery asks whether, what, and who. Skip the second and you ship a flawless answer to a question nobody asked. I skipped one stakeholder on a native-app build and paid in tickets. The team holding the answer was one meeting away.

product
planning
stakeholders
discovery

Apr 12, 20264 min read

You Will Not Out-Argue the "Make It Pop" PM

You will not out-argue the PM whose entire vocabulary is "make it pop." Stop trying. Four moves that work instead: the boring confirmation, the handed-back tradeoff, the loaded "interesting", and framing asks as their win. Minus the sabotage fantasies.

product
design
collaboration