Are you solving the wrong problem, the right way?
Back in 2015, Satyajeet Salgar - the ex-Chief of Staff at YouTube - gave a talk on product management during one of our Toppr Friday sessions. His exposition on product management at YouTube made it evident to us that we had a lot of scope to improve.
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One of the key points from that talk has remained with me till date. For Satyajeet, the most important role of a Product Leader is to ‘identify the right problem to solve’. Product Managers working with the leader can then work on finding and executing a solution.
Since then, I have always asked myself, “Is this the right problem to solve right now?”.
Here are two cases from Toppr’s garden of forking paths where we set about to discover the right problem to solve.
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