Itamar Gilad
Product Coach & Author, Itamar Gilad Consulting. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He is the author of Evidence-Guided and the creator of product frameworks such as GIST and the Confidence Meter. Previously, he spent over two decades in product management and engineering roles at Google and Microsoft.
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Everything Itamar Gilad said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gilad: Google+ Caused Google to Miss Mobile Social Opportunities Like WhatsApp
“In hindsight, not only did Google bet on the wrong thing, it missed much easier opportunities. So just not far from Google's headquarters, there was WhatsApp. Not very famous in the US, but they actually created massive impact. Hundreds of millions of people w…”
Gilad: Most Strategy Is Merely Execution Planning on Steroids
“In many companies, the strategy is just
A roadmap on steroids. It's more plan and execute just on a grand scale.”
Gilad: Validating features by copying competitors never works
“In many companies I meet, if the leading competitor has this feature and we think it's a good idea, validation is done. Let's launch it. That's it. It's a great idea. We need to do it. Never works, honestly. You should not assume that your competitor actually …”
Gilad: Date-based release roadmaps eliminate learning and evidence-guided product development
“I would say that release roadmaps where you are just saying by Q three, we want to launch this or by October, we have to launch that. They're kind of competing with this. If you're doing that. And people know that the goal is to launch that thing by October. F…”
Gilad: 85% to 88% of users love Gmail's tabbed inbox
“Like splitting promotions and social to the side sounds like the stupidest idea, but there's about 85% of the population, 85 to 88% that absolutely love it. And today Gmail has about 1.8 billion active users, according to Gmail. Most of these users are using t…”
Gilad: Opinion-based debates mean the most senior person always wins
“Because when you have the discussion, you come with your own opinions. Usually the most senior person's opinions will win. That's just the way it is.”
Gilad: Measuring engineers solely on output drives disengagement
“So the engineers are kind of getting the signal that what they need to do is deliver. They're focused on output. That's what they're measured on. So they're kind of disengaged. They're disengaged from the users, from the business. They don't care that much.”
Gilad: Teams should structure topology around metrics trees instead of software architecture
“Another thing that happens in a lot of organization, the team topology reflects, you know, the structure of the software or some hierarchical model where we want to organize the organization in a particular way. But if you start with a metrics tree, you can tr…”
Gilad: Teams subvert ICE scoring by using gut feel for confidence
“What happens is that people tend to just go with gut instinct and then give themselves a high confidence. They say it's an eight and I'm pretty convinced. So it's eight for confidence. And I found this a bit disturbing cause it's kind of subverts the whole sys…”
Gilad: Heavy OKRs and full metric trees are overkill for early-stage startups
“Building your entire metrics trees, maybe overkill doing heavy weighted OKRs, maybe overkill for early stage companies even don't know how they create value. So they need to iterate and their goals is really to find product market fit”
Gilad: Most organizations treat MVPs as rebranded beta releases
“One of the patterns I see is that organizations don't know that they can actually learn at a much lower cost. They believe they need to build this elaborate MVP, which is not minimal in any way. And then launch it, and then they will discover it. Basically, it…”
Gilad: Product teams cannot deliver on more than four key results
“These are the maximum four key results and the one or two objectives you guys need to work on teams cannot deliver on more than that.”
Gilad: Google+ Peak Team Reached Roughly 1,000 Employees
“And I think at its peak, it was about a thousand people inside. It was a division, the size of Android and docs and. A really sizable thing. They're under their own buildings.”
Gilad: WhatsApp long measured messages sent as its primary user-value metric
“For example, let's take WhatsApp WhatsApp for very long time measured messages sent because every message sent is a little increment of value for the sender.”
Gilad: Amplitude Tracks 'Weekly Active Learning Users' Who Share Insights
“In amplitude, for example they measure learn active learning users or weekly active learning users, which are users that found in the tool, some insight that was so important that they shared it with at least two other users and they consume it.”
Gilad: Gmail's tabbed inbox was first tested via an HTML facade
“We used a lot of those in the tabbed inbox, by the way, one of the first early versions was actually, we showed the tabbed inbox working. To people, but it wasn't really Gmail. It was just a facade of HTML and behind the scenes. And according to the permission…”
Gilad: Niche product design prompts effectively test PM empathy and creativity
“I like to ask them to design something for a niche audience. So a navigation system for elderly people or some sort of laptop for people with a vision impairment, et cetera. So those are good questions to see their customer empathy, their creativity, their abi…”
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