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A Leader's Guide to Metrics Reviews

Sachin Rekhi

One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. I've come to believe that establishing such a metrics review meeting is critical for developing an effective data-driven culture and I wanted to share some of the best practices around doing so. Why metrics reviews matter.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

With her help, I wrote the first strategy document for Headspace, which eventually led to the complete reimagination of Headspace , maximizing growth for our guided mindfulness product and adjacent spaces. Instead, they’re meant to help the reader understand the strategy document better.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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Shipping fast and safe: Building a culture of low-risk learning

Intercom, Inc.

Production is the only place where your code, infrastructure, and customers come together to represent objective reality. It’s only in production that you can truly validate the performance and correctness of your code, and learn how your customers use your product. We all deal with business-critical legacy systems from time to time.

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Is your engineering team experiencing alert fatigue? Ask these 8 questions

Intercom, Inc.

We introduced regular alert review sessions for teams dealing with frequent alerts. Each alert review session starts with an ordered list of alerts that fired in the previous period, ordered by frequency of their firing. fire most frequently) are reviewed first. . 8 questions to ask when assessing your team’s alerts.

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Decoding Amazon’s Working Backwards Process [Book Review]

NextBigWhat

In my opinion, it all boils down to how can one work with some of the smartest talents, yet ensure they all work ‘together’ – not by limiting to an inspiring leader (Hello Steve Jobs), but a process which works across different units with different cost structure/business model (hardware, retail, software, media etc).