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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Next, cluster related problems into broader themes, and give each theme a relatively short and pithy name.

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Travel Management Systems: Smart Apps Designed To Facilitate Business Travel

The Product Coalition

Now that the COVID pandemic is over, travel management systems are valuable because business travel is back on the table. The term “business travel” might easily evoke images of a glittering world filled with business-class flights, expensive corporate dinners, luxury hotel stays, and various enjoyable activities.

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How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Roman Pichler

This might have involved observing target users, interviewing them, carrying out competitor research, and using throw-away prototypes, to name just a few strategy validation techniques. A small number of indicators are helpful for safely getting to your destination, including how fast you are travelling and how much battery/fuel is left.

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Delete to Accelerate: Transforming Your Product with a Reverse Roadmap

The Product Coalition

They have gotten significantly simpler iteration over iteration despite being rocket engines for space travel. We were now reviewing the features to be sunset, and the teams to work on them. With a dedicated reverse roadmap, you can easily show the experience improvements due to the deletion. But it had to be done. Their hope?

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Why 36% is the magic number: Finding the right amount of text in mobile apps

Intercom, Inc.

“Beyond code, beyond visuals and interactions, what do all these apps have in common with each other? Lots of social stuff, banking, travel, local services, fitness, cooking, more than a few games, even apps made by governments. And beyond code, beyond visuals and interactions, what do they all have in common with each other?

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

It is built on the idea that goals are more important than features, and it consists of five elements: date, name, goal, features, and metrics, as the picture below shows. 10 Regularly Review and Adjust the Roadmap. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work. 8 Make your Roadmap Measurable.

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. The idea of a code review or a design review?