"We had tons of ideas of things that might work, but there were personal reasons to keep going too. We knew that within our org, we had to show growth or the team would get dispersed to other places. There was no option within the operating model for sustainment. Instead, we kept overproducing."
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"Right now the evidence from declining products is that product management is overfocused on development, namely sequencing features and exploring shiny things, and underfocused on outcomes. We — I count myself among the product clan — are collectively prioritizing business fantasies of growth over commitment to real user needs, with long-term profitability as a casualty."
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"Wherever “bias to action” is a value, deliberately killing ideas is not likely to get you promoted.’
Indeed.
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Endlessly-up-and-to-the-right as a guiding principle is enticing, but also impossible.