PSP3: Take Apart a Pitch Deck October 8, 2026 Uber starts by identifying the pain points. They introduce aging radio-dispatch tech, lack of GPS coordination, and heavy “dead-time” as what makes the cab… Continue Reading
PSP 2: Three Ways Into a Market October 8, 2026 What really intrigues me here is not the fact that they have three different assumptions about where the PM workflow pain points are Jira… Continue Reading
PSP 1, Three ways to organize a company October 8, 2026 The most fundamental distinction between Spotify, Airbnb and Zappos is where the product decision-making is really located inside the company organizational structure. They are… Continue Reading
Week 2 PSP: Three Ways Into a Market October 8, 2026 Jira: existing market, red ocean. Atlassian’s tracker is the incumbent. It competes on configurability and breadth. And so many competitors fight over the same… Continue Reading
PSP 2, Three ways into a market October 7, 2026 Jira is a platform that supports bug and issue tracking and agile project management. It can be considered as entering an existing market and… Continue Reading
Brooke Ballhaus: Week 1 PSP: Three Ways to Organize a Company October 7, 2026 Spotify’s model stresses culture and networks. Squads (scrum-like teams owning a “long-term mission” from design to production) are grouped into tribes (squads in a… Continue Reading
Week 3 Milestone: Three Problems October 7, 2026 Comparison Table Criteria Problem 1 Problem 2 Problem 3 Problem description Product managers face lengthy delays obtaining necessary permissions because approval processes are unclear,… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushup 3: Take Apart a Pitch Deck October 7, 2026 Coinbase How does it show the problem? The deck starts by selling bitcoin as fast, global money with no fees (Slides 2 and 3)…. Continue Reading
Brooke Ballhaus: Week 2 PSP: Three Ways Into a Market October 7, 2026 Jira resegmented the bug tracker market by being a cheaper, low-end product with no sales team. Bugzilla and other bug trackers made this a… Continue Reading
