About me
Hi, I'm Dal. I'm a Product Manager currently working for SAGE Publishing. I'm passionate about product and tech for good.
What I enjoy most about working in product
- Finding opportunities using data and qualitative research
- Learning by testing assumptions
- Validating a strategy through experimentation
My philosophy
- De-risking over validation mindset
- Being less wrong by making better decisions using data and reviewing them
- Setting goals and tracking how well we're performing against them
- Helping to build product thinking amongst colleagues, especially non product people
Key skills
- Adaptable - especially when the problem is unknown, nobody knows where to begin, time constraints budget constraints
- Self starter - I can self initiate an idea and use tools such as design sprints, Lean Startup to learn cheaply
- Research - Finding data, qualitative, quantitative and drawing hypotheses from which to synthesise focus
My personal artefacts
What I'm learning more about
- The power of mental models to make better decisions
- The power of continuous customer discovery to help surface product opportunities
- The Zettelkasten note taking method to improve thinking by writing
Where I want to improve
- I believe in building product thinking among none product teams - product cannot exist in a silo and companies need the right ecosystems for people to do their best work. I'm learning more about organisational change and culture building at the moment.