Strategyzer

MAY 12, 2021

This is a guest post from David J Bland, co-author of our best selling book Testing Business Ideas. Testing Business Ideas explains how to increase the success of any venture by providing a practical guide to rapid experimentation.

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Mind the Product

JULY 26, 2019

Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco’s Civic Centre for a day of 10 incredible keynotes from Denise Jacobs, Michael Sippey, Brandon Chu, David J Bland, Tricia Wang, Fareed Mosavat, Steve Portigal, Kathy Pham, Elizabeth Churchill, and Teresa Torres. The next day saw the full 1,650 attendees descend on the iconic Louise M.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 28, 2020

Bland and I are teaming up to help you articulate a product roadmap and then systematically de-risk it though testing and validation. What skills do you wish more new Product people had? Masterclass Speaking of learning, I am partial to a certain Masterclass: I'll be giving a Test-Driven Roadmap Masterclass in Boston, March 12-13.

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Product Culture

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Dozens and dozens of you for working so hard in my workshops Teresa Torres, product discovery maven, for setting a great example of saying “no” Barry O’Reilly for making it OK to post pictures of “quarantinis” Gib Biddle, strategist extraordinaire, for letting me help here and there John Cutler, development team fixer, for his continuous stream of (..)

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Product Culture

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Bland and I are teaming up to help you articulate a product roadmap and then systematically de-risk it though testing and validation. Plus a coffee with me (real or virtual) to chat about Product. Masterclass Compelling roadmap + tested assumptions = formula for rocket fuel! It’s the Test-Driven Roadmap Masterclass in Boston, March 12-13.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 16, 2020

Bland and I are teaming up to help you articulate a product roadmap and then systematically de-risk it though testing and validation. I go into themes in Chapter 5 of my book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. What is a good example of a dream theme?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 10, 2018

I sought out and learned a lot from people like Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden, Giff Constable, and David Bland, who were at the forefront of that movement. After learning more about my domain, I became influenced by adjacent areas like Agile, Lean, Lean UX, and Lean Startup. Eric Ries’s book was really the turning point in my career.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

But the problem, says David J. Bland , Founder and CEO at Precoil.com, is that we start with “Build”. David walked us through several methods of testing our assumptions using methods that don’t involve building the product upfront. We always talk about the “Build – Measure – Learn” loop of lean product development.

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Brian Balfour

JUNE 28, 2017

The Product Death Cycle was originally coined by David Bland of Precoil. The problem with the answer of “build a great product” is that it leads to something that Andrew Chen and I talk about extensively in the Reforge Growth Series called the Product Death Cycle. Launch: Features are launched with some press.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Resource: Principles of Experimentation Flow by David Bland. But if your team doesn’t make a thoughtful effort to learn from their actions and iterate, you will leave money on the table. Learn: Reflection techniques, How to run effective meetings. Designers who drive impact know how to measure their work. Instrumentation.

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

Product Death Cycle by David Bland. Then, repeat after me (or Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz, to be precise): “The natural state of any new product is that no one’s using it :)”. And while most product managers think the users need more features to start using their product…the opposite is often true.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2014, David J Bland introduced this eye-opening concept in a tweet. As David Bland puts it , “Customers don’t always know what they want. If this scenario sounds familiar, you might be caught in the vicious Product Death Cycle. We're doing exactly what we've been taught: listening to our customers.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Assumption mapping is an activity David Bland introduces in his book Testing Business Ideas. In his book Testing Business Ideas , David Bland shares an exercise called assumption mapping. For an alternative point of view, check out David Bland’s experiment card in Testing Business Ideas. The results.

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BrainMates

JUNE 10, 2020

Product expert David Bland addressed exactly this issue at a recent Product Talks meetup. With an extensive background in scaling technology startups, David has helped validate new products and businesses at companies such as GE, Toyota, Adobe, HP, Behr and more. This has the power to change the conversation,” David explains. “If

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 7, 2020

So, this is something we started with a guy called David Bland I’m just the co-author where we set out people are not sophisticated enough when it comes to experiments. Okay, Steve Bland’s quote fine line between vision and hallucination. So, in business we actually should act a little bit more like scientists.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Let’s consider those buckets in more detail, using this diagram inspired by David Bland about product and market fit: You might recognize the acronym AARRR as Dave McClure’s “pirate metrics.”

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: David Bland’s assumption mapping exercise where you’re mapping out a two by two grid is a great example of externalizing your thinking. They have to put something on a board and decide how it relates to something else on the board. They’re movable.

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