diff --git a/content/day3/02_poduct_market_misfit b/content/day3/02_poduct_market_misfit index af60a74..1a0c102 100644 --- a/content/day3/02_poduct_market_misfit +++ b/content/day3/02_poduct_market_misfit @@ -3,3 +3,79 @@ title: "Product market misfit: Adventures in user empathy" weight: 2 --- +Mitch from aviatrix -a former software engineer who has now switched over to product managment. + +## Opening Thesis + +Opening with the Atari 2600 E.T. game as very bad fit sample. +Thesis: Missing user empathy + +* A very hard game aimed at children without the will to trail and error +* Other aspect: Some of the devalopers were pulled together from throughout the company -> No passion needed + +### Another sample + +* Idea: SCADA system with sensors that can be moved and the current location get's tracked via iPad. +* Result: Nobody used the iPad app - only the desktop webapp +* Problem: Sensor get's moved, location not updated, the measurements for the wrong location get reported until update +* Source: Moving a sensor is a pretty involved process including high pressure aka no priority for iPad +* Empathy loss: Different working endvironments result in drastic work experience missmatch + +## The source + +* Idea: A software engineer writes software, that someone else has to use, not themselfes +* Problem: Distance between user and dev is high and their perspectives differ heavily + +## User empathy + +* The art of taking on the perspective of one's users/customers +* Without this your product will fail + +## Stories from Istio + +* Classic implementation: Sidecar Proxy +* Question: Can the same value be provided without a sidecar anywhers +* Answer: Ambient mode -> split into l4 (proxy per node) and l7 (no sharing) +* Problem: After alpha release ther was a lack of exitement and feedback +* Result: Twitter Space event for feedback + +### Ideas and feedback + +* Idea: Sidecar is somewhat magical +* Feedback: Sidecars are a pain, but after integrating istio can be automated -> a problem gets solved, that already had a solution +* Result: Highly overvalued the pain of sidecars +* Idea: Building istio into a platform sounds easy +* Feedback: The platform has to be changed for the new ambient mode -> High time investment while engineers are hard +* Result: The cost of platform changes was highly undervalued +* Idea: Sidecar compute sound expensive and networking itself pretty cheap +* Feedback: Many users have multi-region clusters -> Egress is whery expoenive +* Result: The relation between compute and egress cost was pretty much swapped + +### What now? + +* Ambient is the right solution for new users (fresh service mesehes) +* Existing users probaly won't upgrade +* Result: They will move forward with ambient mdoe + +## So what did we lern + +### Basic questions + +* Who are my intended users? +* What exites/worries them? +* What do they find easy/hard? +* What is ther biggest expense and what is inexpensive? + +### How to get better empathy + +1. Shared perspective comes from proximity + 1. Where they are + 2. What they do -> Dogfood everything related to the platform (not just your own products) +2. Never stop listening + 1. Even if you love your product + 2. Especially if you love your product + 3. Invite critical feedback + +### Takeaways + +* Don't ship a puzzlebox (landscape) but a picture (this integrates with this and that)