Liam helps people to deliver digital products as a freelance product manager and consultant. He is also the founder of MealPro App, a white-label meal planning tool with over 5000 users at the time of writing.

What we discuss with Liam Smith

• The difference between starting with a problem and starting with an idea
• Estimating how long work will take
• Doing lots of things quickly vs doing a few things really well
• What intentional ignorance is and how it gets you better results 
• The real world difference between Product Managers and Project Managers 
• Why introducing features can make the product worse for customers 
• Why you need to understand what the people using your product are actually trying to do
• What is Jobs to be Done Theory
• How one company wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds to try to solve a problem that didn't exist

Links in this episode

• Liam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamseansmith/
• Meal Pro App: www.mealproapp.com
• Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work: https://amzn.to/3bxGoSt

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