person who does Systems Thinking (more)

There are 3 Games of Product Management, and each of these has variations based on the context. (more)

The Metagame, or game about the game, is any approach to a game that transcends or operates outside of the prescribed rules of the game; uses external factors to affect the game; or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. Metagaming might also refer to a game which functions to create or modify the rules of a sub-game. Thus, we might play a metagame selecting which rules will apply during the play of the game itself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metagaming See There are 3 Games of Product Management. (more)

person who does Product Management (more)

the eventual output of systems thinking

Attempts to think about Systems And Games. (more)

Yancey Strickler post: HOW TO LONG GAME 1. THERE IS NO SHORT GAME, ONLY LONG GAME. SHORT GAME IS TOURISM. LONG GAME IS LIVING THERE. (more)

Priya Mathew Badger: How to Prototype an AI feature. This flow allows any PM to go from a simple idea to a prototype of an AI powered feature with no coding to understand the basics of how AI features work. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: My biggest takeaways from Stewart Butterfield. (more)

The illusion of control is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control events; for example, it occurs when someone feels a sense of control over outcomes that they demonstrably do not influence.[1] The effect was named by psychologist Ellen Langer and has been replicated in many different contexts.[2] It is thought to influence gambling behavior and belief in the paranormal.[3] Along with illusory superiority and optimism bias, the illusion of control is one of the positive illusions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control (all models are wrong, but some are useful) (more)

Summary: create multiple short consistent documents of your current business strategy/product strategy, to help people throughout the organization make decisions, generate ideas, etc. (more)

Empowered Product Team - Martin Cagan frame. (more)

A team (esp product team) that includes people performing all the functions necessary to deliver an increment. Also called empowered product team. (more)

group that does Team Work together on Product Development (ideally an empowered product team doing Agile Product Development) or D And D (more)

Jeff Gothelf: (Management) Ego killed the empowered product team. By now you’ve most certainly read Martin Cagan’s article on Product teams vs Feature Teams. ((2019-08-29) Cagan Product Vs Feature Teams) (more)

I created A Diagram of Effects of the AntiPatterns in a Product/Dev Team in Miro. Making agile product development unlikely. (more)

model/structure of multiple metrics for your organization; see esp Schmidt Backlinks below, incl (2023-11-16) Schmidt Input Metrics Are So Hard That Most Product Teams Give Up (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Input metrics are so hard that most product teams give up. Teams can’t usually launch a product or marketing update and immediately see the business impact. They need input metrics to measure the results of their efforts. (more)

Practice of driving a Product Team via the Feedback of a single metric. (more)

Project-oriented Roadmaps are counter-productive for Software Product Teams. (more)