Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time to Speed Product Development
summary
The talk explains concrete question templates and framing techniques to make product development feedback and prioritization more actionable. It recommends Tim Ferriss–style specificity, future-projection prompts (e.g., ask users a year later what changed in their daily work), workshop prompts like “which question would you be disappointed not to have answered,” prioritization questions such as “what will happen if we don't build this” or “who suffers if we skip it,” and an engineer-focused practice of asking confidence on a 1–10 scale then “what do you need to reach 8–10.”
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:14New role and product stakes
- 3:17Defining a good question
- 6:57Punchy user questions
- 10:10Prioritizing features
- 13:43Tech and product collaboration
- 18:22Consensus and metrics questions
- 25:35Knowing users
- 29:42One-to-one and internal interviews
- 33:31Product Manager role
- 35:20Recap of good questions
- 38:14Literature and personal experience
- 39:21Right timing for questions
- 40:28Questions and hiring
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