Alex Cowan

Then: Founder (2 exits, many shots) Now: Prof. @DardenMBA + online with over 700,000 courses served (🤯), investor, and silly goose. Gimmick-free product takes

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

What is Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD)?

For me, it's been an answer to the question of what's missing from agile and a way to create focus on outcomes over output.

Here's a few specifics: 🧵

[yimika not yinka @oluwa_Yimika]

Officially a Product Manager! 🤭❤
Completed my Product Management certification with @coursera, grateful to the tutor who made it worth it @cowanSF , for the journey and every insight gained.
Excited to keep learning, solving problems, and building user-centric products

[Gabriel A @SnrExe100]

A must-read for anyone in Digital Product Management, highly practical, rich with company history, and grounded in academic paradigms that connect theory to real-world execution

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

@arithmoquine Assembled 10 pre-tenure, physics faculty, and pitch them on doing research on continuum.

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

Just doing the analytics in Excel

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

6/6
Did I mention- please buy my book? https://t.co/ByWkfITKbe

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

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Microsoft's not the problem, Crowdstrike's not the problem- the problem is much deeper, but also very fixable. A 🧵:

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

5/6
The smart move for companies is to simplify their computing while continually making their applications more user-centric.

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

4/6
Window and MacOS were built for a vastly different environment-
one where local applications were much more complicated and fussy,
one where there was no Internet (as we know it),
one where security was not really a thing.

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

2/6
An airline employee checking in passengers, rebooking flights, executing checklists, does not need Windows (or MacOS)- nor does a healthcare employee checking records in an EMR/patient management tool (Epic, etc.).

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

New Post: Using AI vs. Finding Your Ground Truth Supremacy

tl;dr For getting wins with AI, every company has their own domain-specific ground truth supremacy. They should be executing on it instead of waiting for big tech to do it for them.

https://t.co/vczmXRfYxq

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

New Post: Using AI vs. Finding Your Ground Truth Supremacy (https://t.co/vczmXRfYxq)

[shaurya @shauseth]

what no-code people don’t get is that writing code is the easiest part of programming

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

5. Declarative Design
Bear with me, but as AI makes it easier to create apps, PM's need to get better at describing success them. And yes, it's the topic of my book, HDD.
https://t.co/uWUP5Ni01p

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

As game-changing as AI is, many of the big tech wins will have as much to do with other fast-changing topics. Here are 5 that I think every PM should know about.

A 🧵:

[Alex Cowan @cowanSF]

4. Gamification
I know, I know- you've heard the buzz on this. But it's still happening, and if you learn to do it well it spikes user engagement, even for difficult (or boring) tasks.