Category Archives: Product
System design crash course
Crash course in system design https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer $79 – worth the money: https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview http://highscalability.com/
Productive teams, powerful results
Happy, empowered teams are orders of magnitude more impactful than mercenary developers. Developers need: Autonomy Psychological Safety Time to focus Time to innovate For everything you need to know about productive development teams, read Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Amazon) High-Performing Teams Need Pyschological Safety (HBR Article)
Lean learning machine
Building lean products is the best way to learn and iterate to success. Kanbanize Lean Management The 5 Lean Principles The lean product playbook The Lean Startup Sprint (How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days)
How hard could it a/b?
Testing to learn is important, but it’s easy to design a bad test, or infer results that don’t exist. The art and science of product metrics (indeed engineering) Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster How to Measure Anything
Understanding Roadmaps
The following article and book explain roadmaps better than I can, so I’ll be brief. Roadmaps are a tool for communicating direction. They are not a gantt chart, and they are not a rock-solid commitment. Certainty degrades over time, and roadmaps should only be detailed enough to communicate direction over time, without becoming a burden…