Product Management in the Age of Hybrid Teams
tl;dr: "Working on a fully distributed team isn’t the asynchronous collab disaster I once thought it might be... It's actually a blessing in disguise." New to managing a distributed team? We have a new way of thinking for you.featured in #234
Choosing Your North Star Metric
- Lenny Rachitsky tl;dr: Lenny surveyed current and past employees at over 40 of today’s most successful growth-stage companies to compile a table of the metrics commonly used. He also has a a framework for choosing a north star metric based on company type.featured in #234
An Inside Look At How Figma Ships Product
- Yuhki Yamashita tl;dr: Yuhki guides us through a new product roadmap doc and process. Meetings start with a silent review of the doc. Then the team (1) vote for certain topics to be discussed, (2) reflect on recent launches, (3) team leads complete weekly updates, (4) wins are celebrated.featured in #221
Assign Problems (Not Work) To Your Teams To Build Extraordinary Products
- Raphaela Wrede tl;dr: A top down approach when a product manager mandates, with little buy in from the team, yields low engagement. A collaborative sprint with members of product, design, engineering, research, support, and analytics creates much higher engagement.featured in #216
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Ask the EM: How Can I Work Better With My Product Manager, As An Engineering Lead?
- Gergely Orosz tl;dr: A healthy relationship between engineering and product lead has (1) two people, one voice inside and outside the team. (2) Frequent communication. (3) Empathy towards the other. (4) Clear understanding of where roles start and end. Gergely discusses how to forge such a relationship.featured in #200
Why Standups Are Useless And How To Run Great Product Team Meetings
- Andy John tl;dr: In the bulk of a product development process, standups aren't useful. Instead, hold 1-2 meetings a week with the following agenda - (1) action items: who is handling what key action item and by what date? (2) what decisions need to be made?featured in #160
Performance Metrics For Blazingly Fast Web Apps
- Conrad Irwin tl;dr: Conrad discusses Superhuman's approach to performance metrics (1) Use event.timeStamp for start of events (2) end of events, use use performance.now() in a requestAnimationFrame() 3) ignore when the tab is not focused 4) aggregate data using “% of events that are under target” 5) visualize multiple thresholds. 📈 Click on the link in this tweet to bypass the paywall.featured in #155
How Product Managers Lose Trust
- John Cutler tl;dr: Trust is essential between team members and is a result of previous decisions made between team members. Second, language used by PMs is essential - John uses various scenarios to illustrate this.featured in #154
Guide to Product Planning: Three Feature Buckets
- Adam Nash tl;dr: Features can be bucketed into one of three. Metric movers, designed to make business goals happen. Customer requests and customer delight, making sure customer needs are focussed on.featured in #152