02.4.3 · Skill in Prioritization
Risk and uncertainty
Weighing what could go wrong and how little you know.
Product work carries value risk, usability risk, feasibility risk and business risk. High uncertainty can be a reason to run a cheap test first rather than to avoid the work. Naming the risk is the first step to reducing it.
Resources
2- articleStart hereAssumption testing: everything you need to know to get started ↗Teresa Torres (Product Talk) · 2023 · 20 min
How to break an idea into its assumptions and test the riskiest ones quickly, before building.
- bookGo deeperRisks and rabbit holes (Shape Up, chapter 5) ↗Ryan Singer (Basecamp) · 14 min
How to find the parts of a project that could blow up its timeline, and cut them before work starts.
Tools
none yetTools for this topic are being researched.