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Adam is the Co-founder of Rove, a B2B SaaS business transforming international trade for consumer brands. With over 15 years of experience in Product Management, he specialises in shaping product strategies and scaling teams to deliver impactful results. As a Fractional CPO and Advisor, Adam works with businesses to unlock growth through strong product leadership and emerging technologies. A Mind the Product trainer for the past 7 years, he has coached product leaders and managers across the UK, Europe, and the US, helping product people build products customers love.

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In this #mtpengage Manchester talk, <a href="https://twitter.com/roisiproven" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Roisi Proven</a> of Gower Street Analytics talks about the lizard loop, which she describes as “backing rigour with intuition, after you’ve already backed up your intuition with rigour”.
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-15772" src="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/roisi-300x200.jpg" alt="Roisi Proven speaks at MTP Engage Manchester" width="965" height="643" srcset="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/roisi-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/roisi-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/roisi-1024x683.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px" />
System 1 and System 2 thinking originate from the popular book <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0141033576" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Thinking Fast and Slow</a> by Daniel Kahneman. System 1 thinking, also known as your lizard brain, and is responsible for fast, automatic, frequent, unconscious decisions. What’s 1+1? Instinctively, you know it’s 2 and that’s your lizard brain. System 2 is the slow, analytic part of your brain. Our brains have a large bias towards System 1 thinking, as it takes considerably less energy.
Taking the concepts of System 1 and System 2 thinking and applying them to our products leads to a number of questions we need to ask ourselves. Firstly, what are our internal anchors and biases? If we’re making decisions on using System 1 &#8211; which is used to make most decisions &#8211; then these biases will be inherent in our products. To overcome this, we need to keep asking ourselves hard questions:
<ul>
<li>Do I think unfairly about a group of people?</li>
<li>Am I blindly positive about the product I&#8217;m building?</li>
<li>When our users get something wrong, do I sometimes think they must be &#8220;stupid&#8221;?</li>
</ul>
We also need to check our questioning of our customers during research, to ensure we don’t pass on these biases through our lines of questioning.
This is where System 2 thinking comes in. If we ask ourselves hard questions, we’re asking our System 2 to check our System 1 thinking. This is hard, and feels uncomfortable, but it’s how we start to use intuition (System 1) and rigour (System 2) to achieve the best results.
Roisi encourages us to value pessimism as a virtue. To be pessimistic is to engage System 2 and add rigour to our thinking, and there are two potential tests to do this:
<ul>
<li>Dr Pepper test &#8211; what’s the worst that could happen?!</li>
<li>Black Mirror test &#8211; what is this, but with baddies…</li>
</ul>
To help us make the best decisions we can make, we need to make sure we continue to check our thinking using these tests, seeing them as the canaries in the coal mine.

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AI in practice at Amsterdam’s leading companies – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: Amsterdam

Product teams in flux – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: London

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The future of product management – Trisha Price (CPO, Pendo)

The future of product management in 2024 and beyond (Brian Walsh, SVP Product, Pendo)

The Lizard Loop – How to Back up Rigour With Intuition by Roisi Proven

Adam Warburton