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Prioritizing - By Lenny Rachitsky - Lenny's Newsletter
6. Great PMs ruthlessly prioritizes, both the team’s work and their own
Lenny Rachitsky • 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers
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Some ways to build this habit:Say no. Or, “not yet.” Try using the phrase “ruthless prioritization” when prioritizing as a team, or saying no to an ask.Align with your team and your manager on a single prioritized source-of-truth roadmap.
Lenny Rachitsky • 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers
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It’s important to challenge yourself and your peers to cut even the good ideas if they aren’t perishable (can be done later), strategic (don’t directly support this plan’s strategy), or differentiating (set you apart from your competition). Instead, put those resources against the top priorities.
review.firstround.com • The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
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Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age
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Prioritize work to minimize opportunity cost. This prevents you from only pursuing incremental futures. In each quarter how much time to allocate incremental ~ 60%, to big new initiatives ~30%, to guidance & infrastructure ~10%.
Substack • Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
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Prioritize the tasks on your product roadmap with feedback on the community’s most urgent needs.
Lauren M Taylor • Community is the New Moat
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