This makes sense because of how these teams are typically organized — not as true product teams, but as project teams. They are given an output goal and only make decisions within the bounds of that output. Since decisions about the form factor are typically made for them by executive stakeholders — like that customer’s CEO — they skip right to the form factor.

Once the team’s work is framed as a product problem, it becomes extremely difficult to correct that framing. No amount of validating your idea will tell you that you’re on the wrong track.

When you ask “what features do users want the dashboard to have” you’ll never hear “users don’t need a dashboard” unless you’re really good at reading between the lines.

Because the team was told “build a tracker” by their stakeholder, “users want a tracker” became the animating principle behind the team’s efforts. Other mandates you’ve likely seen pop up in the news include “users want a chatbot,” “users want a dashboard” or “users want a subscription to their mouse.”

Fundamentally, the question all these teams are asking is not “what needs do our customers have?” but “What features is this product missing?”

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