Should product management decisions be data-driven or more so data-informed? Should Product Managers lead with intuition and use data to back up their assumptions?

Product management decisions should ideally be data-informed rather than purely data-driven. Being data-informed means leveraging data to guide and support decision-makin...

I have a strong bias towards data-informed approach over a data-driven approach as I believe that data is just one of the many inputs that product manager needs to consid...

There is definitely a fine line here. Every decision cannot be data driven and will likely be informed to some extent BUT part of the excitment of product management is l...

The answer to this question falls in the category of "it depends" :) Let me give a few examples where different approaches would help drive the decision making.Example 1:...

Data should be used to inform product management decisions rather than drive them. A product manager should lead with intuition and use data to support their assumptions....

Classic PM answer - it depends. The longer you are at the organization, the better intuition you will develop. The same applies to the product maturity, e.g. 0-1 vs. 1...

While intuition serves as a valuable starting point for Product Managers, particularly those well-versed in their field, market dynamics, and customer preferences, relyin...

The ongoing debate between data-driven decision-making and being data-informed continues to captivate the product management community. From my personal experience, data ...