Posts by Michael Anz

There's something counterintuitive about starting at the finish line. Most of us are conditioned to begin at the beginning—sketch an idea, build a prototype, test it, refine it, and eventually…

We live in an age of relentless demands. Your phone buzzes with notifications, your inbox swells with unread messages, and your mental to-do list grows faster than you can cross…

There's a particular kind of madness that afflicts early-stage founders. You're sitting there at 2 AM, staring at your analytics dashboard, watching the numbers tick upward. Traffic is growing. Signups…

Strategic planning often feels like navigating without a map. Organizations face countless decisions about where to invest resources, which initiatives to pursue, and how to position themselves against competitors. Without…

Measuring user experience often feels like navigating through fog. You sense something important happening, but capturing it with concrete numbers seems impossible. This challenge becomes even more daunting when you're…

Picture this: your team spends months developing what you're convinced is a brilliant product, only to watch it flop because nobody actually wanted what you built. It's a painful scenario…

Product teams often find themselves building features that customers requested but rarely use. The disconnect stems from a fundamental misunderstanding: treating customer feedback as a shopping list rather than symptoms…

What is GIST planning? Every product team has experienced the frustration of launching something they were certain would succeed, only to watch it languish unused. The culprit is usually the…

Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum. The most successful products and solutions emerge when teams step outside their own assumptions and truly understand the people they're designing for. This is…

Imagine trying to conduct an orchestra where each musician decides independently when to play their part. That's essentially what happens when large organizations attempt to scale agile practices without a…