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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes. Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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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. Here is a template for that document.

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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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How To Create A Powerful Product Experimentation System?

The Product Coalition

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. Allocate time regularly- The only way to get enough ideas to run a high velocity testing system is to set aside time for it. How to prioritize the ideas for maximum business value?

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

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. What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning? necessary execution power).

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Product Redesign Proposal: Structure & Tips

UX Planet

When proposing redesign to stakeholders, you should prepare a document that will create a proper context for them and provide answers to the most common questions they likelyhave. Note that you dont have to provide an in-depth explanation of the reasoning right in the introduction; you will do it later in the document.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Monitoring and alerting systems aren’t perfect, and it can take some time for the customers to notice problems and report them to the support team. We all deal with business-critical legacy systems from time to time. Even the simplest change to those systems could be risky because of your lack of context and the potential blast radius.