Haruna GashowIT Business Analyst · Product

Writing

Thinking, in public.

Short essays on how product decisions actually get made — the analysis, the trade-offs, and the discipline that keeps scope honest.

ProductMay 2026 · 6 min
Requirements are not a document
Most failed builds were specified perfectly. The failure happened one conversation earlier.
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BusinessApr 2026 · 5 min
The business case comes before the feature case
Roadmaps drift because scope decisions are argued in the language of features instead of outcomes.
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ProductFeb 2026 · 7 min
What a six-week MVP actually buys you
The deadline is not a productivity trick. It is a forcing function for honest scope.
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ResearchDec 2025 · 6 min
Designing trust as a requirement, not a message
In civic and financial products, credibility has acceptance criteria.
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LeadershipOct 2025 · 5 min
The real skill is translating between rooms
Executives, engineers, designers, and users describe the same product in four incompatible languages.
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