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The Rotten Apple • 241 implied HN points • 08 Jan 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Food Safety Food Fraud Verification Validation
  1. Contaminated cinnamon had lead levels over 2000 times the safe limit, prompting food fraud vulnerability assessment recommendations
  2. Ecuadorian cinnamon supply chain was affected by contamination, possibly due to adulteration with lead chromate
  3. Understanding verification vs validation in food safety: Check procedures vs. ensuring procedures deliver the required results
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The Top Reasons High-Performing Teams Leverage User Stories

PeopleStorming • 59 implied HN points • 26 Oct 23
💼 Business Communication Prioritization Visualization Validation
  1. User stories are concise descriptions of value from the perspective of the person who desires that value, helping to keep focus on end user needs and goals.
  2. Leveraging user stories can lead to improved communication and collaboration within teams, customer-centricity, and easier prioritization of workloads.
  3. An effective user story typically consists of three parts: the role, the output, and the benefit, enabling teams to articulate the purpose of their work and prioritize effectively.

Validating PCAs (2)

Only Wonder Knows • 19 implied HN points • 22 Sep 23
🔬 Science Validation
  1. Validating the design of a Power Supply Unit (PSU) requires analytical worst case support.
  2. When testing memory, differentiate between design validation and assembly test for optimal coverage.
  3. For precise analog signals, validate design with analytical worst case analysis and perform functional tests for manufacturing validation.

Go fix your bugs

Basta’s Notes • 40 implied HN points • 04 May 23
🕹 Technology Coding Security Performance Validation
  1. Always validate the types of values your API accepts to prevent potential security vulnerabilities.
  2. Be cautious with regular expressions to avoid performance issues like ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service).
  3. Check and handle subdomains and domain name validation to prevent unexpected bugs or failures in your application.

Product Management Skills - Articulating assumptions and acting with intention

Joseph Gefroh • 0 implied HN points • 22 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management Decision-making Problem Solving Risk management Validation
  1. Product Managers need to be intentional with their decisions to drive beneficial outcomes for the company. Lack of intentionality can lead to arbitrary decisions that may not have the desired effect.
  2. Being intentional involves articulating the thought process behind proposals, validating assumptions, and being open to feedback. This increases the chances of success in product management.
  3. To effectively manage a product, one should thoroughly discover and define the problem space, propose viable approaches, form concise hypotheses, articulate key assumptions, validate those assumptions, make informed decisions, and monitor outcomes for continuous improvement.

How I failed with SpamLabs even before it even started

The Tech Bubble • 0 implied HN points • 04 Apr 24
🕹 Technology Startups Entrepreneurship Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Validation
  1. The initial idea behind SpamLabs was to offer an API for email address validation, but the lack of competition indicated a small market demand.
  2. The pivot to combat email unsolicited cold emailing faced challenges as traditional email validation methods did not work effectively.
  3. Exploring the problem space and validating ideas with potential users before investing heavily in coding can help prevent wasting time on unfeasible projects.