Liam Smith - Why You Should Start With a Problem Not An Idea
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Liam helps people to deliver digital products as a freelance product manager and consultant. He is also the founder of MealPro App, a white-label meal planning tool with over 5000 users at the time of writing.
What we discuss with Liam Smith
- The difference between starting with a problem and starting with an idea
- Estimating how long work will take
- Doing lots of things quickly vs doing a few things really well
- What intentional ignorance is and how it gets you better results
- The real world difference between Product Managers and Project Managers
- Why introducing features can make the product worse for customers
- Why you need to understand what the people using your product are actually trying to do
- What is Jobs to be Done Theory
- How one company wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds to try to solve a problem that didn't exist
Links in this episode
- Liam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamseansmith/
- Meal Pro App: www.mealproapp.com
- Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work: https://amzn.to/3bxGoSt
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