PRDs are problematic
Among other things, PRDs have problems like this:
- “They go stale fast”
- “No one reads them”
- “They are about what and not why”
- At the beginning of a real product effort, you have very high uncertainty
- There’s lots of experimentation
- What you know changes constantly
- They often don’t talk about the customer, the market problem we’re solving, why that market problem is worth solving, etc.
PRD problems and potential solutions
In this episode, I start a series about PRDs and how we can make them better. To start with: What’s wrong with PRDs?
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