Kassen Qian

Basic structures cannot be composed into larger structures unless they themselves are internally consistent, and so the creation of software, just like any artifact of language, is naturally incremental.Software is a very verbose, very precise incantation of how an information system ought to behave.

Features don’t work, in the sense that they can be easily gamed. Behaviour has an advantage over features in that you can describe any feature in terms of behaviour, but you can’t describe behaviour in terms of features.

Features work as a management control because they manifest in the final product, and their relationship to programmer-hours is about as close to linear as you’re going to get.

The Lean Startup model has pretty much become the orthodoxy for launching a new product or company today: build an extremely rough version one, launch it, find some users, and then iterate on the product as quickly as you can (pivoting).

The solution: Figma's product roadmap doc.

Honesty & Culture: You build trust, credibility, and respect with the team.

Ownership: I can give you a problem statement, but you’re the one who determines what your job is. You don’t get driven around by the team; you figure out what the team needs, and you deliver that.

The Build It stage ends when management and the squad jointly believe that this product fulfills the basic narrative and is good enough to start releasing to real users.

You’re an inventor : Great PMs are usually creative types, who can generate and churn through many ideas all at once, to arrive at solutions to difficult and multi-faceted problems.