Product strategy
Product strategy is the process of defining what you want to achieve and how you plan to get there.
Tom So and
Product strategy
Quite simply, it means that the default state of a product - including the default settings for notifications, the onboarding experience, the welcome message you get etc - determine the product’s fate. It’s the only portion of the product that EVERY user experiences, and it sets the bit for every behavior.
Scott Belsky • Collapsing the Talent Stack, Persona-Led Growth & Designing Organizations for the Future Collapsing the Talent Stack, Persona-Led Growth & Designing Organizations for the Future
"I see our customers as partners in a big project, not as crops to be harvested. You can’t have a sustainable long-term relationship when you treat your customers as crops.”
-Tobi Lutke
“One of the things that we think about is what the benefit of an incremental feature is, who it's benefiting, and what the cost of that feature is. And the cost is really the important underemphasized thing in this equation. It's often obvious the type of person who's asking for it, more powerful ways to sort your tags or whatever. You know,
... See moreA great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:
Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play
The Root Causes of Product Failure by Marty Cagan at Mind the Product San Francisco
youtube.comSuperhuman | Acquired Podcast
acquired.fmWhen the balance skews towards Compete , it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. The vision for the future devolves into questions like, "what if we had more users?" and "what if we just did more stuff?" This mindset drives products to become big, complex messes of features, leaving you wondering, "who asked for all this?" You end up with a
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