PITA 002
TOPIC 1:
Remote games that you can play with your team or your friends?
https://kahoot.it/ (second appearance!)
http://jigsawpuzzles.io
freebingocards.com
Strava for indoors? Someone may need to invent this!
https://www.kidscreateabsurdity.com/ - but haven't found an online version yet
https://zombiesrungame.com/
Taskmaster daily challenge, follow https://twitter.com/AlexHorne https://twitter.com/AlexHorne/status/1242729749144915968?s=20
https://freehand.invisionapp.com/freehand/new
One camera on a board game, everybody joins in, one person acts as controller
TOPIC 2:
Selling Product Management as freelance/consultant for startups
Context:
Offering PM freelance work to startups (have product-market-fit, 10-20ppl, pre-series-A)
Hiring 1st product person, often don’t know what kind of PM they want
Challenge:
defining scope and measurable deliverables
Pricing: fixed vs. Time-material
Discussion:
Discovery into problems (e.g. biz talking with engineering)
What’s the problem trying to solve, and what’s in 3-6 months. Target their perceived problem.
Focusing on priorities, relied on freelances at the beginning of setting up the product.
For UI work, was single jobs with fixed-price.
For UX and user research, was 1d of work a week, with a daily rate
Try the opposite: define better ways to filter out what they don’t think the problem is.
Create the job that you want to do and pick your clients based on that.
Easier to sell UX research to a firm that knows what UX research is.
TOPIC 3:
How to start a new role - making initial connections and sizing up the dynamics remotely
https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/tools/
TOPIC 4:
Shock doctrine: how can we use the crisis to push for changes we have been struggling with due to the “old guard” resisting and pushing back on it
https://www.amazon.com/Naomi-Klein-Doctrine-Capitalism-12-2-2006/dp/B00HTK37WC
Stockpile stories / case studies
Look into the data
Retest assumptions / re-validate personas
People changing because the are forced / vs because they like it
Be careful to stay true to your vision
And for product people who want to pitch in on the COVID-19 effort