Author Archives: Chris Sims

Cognitive Bias

A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of irrationality. Cognitive biases can lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate thinking, illogical interpretation, and poor decisions. Because cognitive biases affect how people understand and even perceive reality, they are difficult to avoid, even … Continue reading

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Product Discovery

Product discovery is the iterative work of figuring what will make a product usable, useful, valuable, and implementable.

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Component Team

A component team is a team that is specialized to work on a single part of a larger system. A common scenario would be a website that has back-end code that runs on the server and front-end code that runs … Continue reading

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Feature Team

A feature team is a team that can work across multiple parts of technology stack in order to get features done without depending on other teams. A common scenario would be a website that has back-end code that runs on … Continue reading

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