Naming the problem before the fix

  • customer success
  • product thinking

When teams jump to fixes too early, you get motion without alignment. In customer-facing roles, I have learned to pause and ask: what would “fixed” look like for the customer? and what signal are we seeing more than once?

A short, agreed description — who is affected, what broke, and what outcome we need — saves hours in Slack threads and keeps Product, Engineering, and CS on the same page.

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