Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Usually, the answers of CEOs who don't really understand their own product are "we want to increase revenue by selling more, which is driven by customers buying our product." There's not much you can do to help these people. 3443
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Product teams under this sort of leadership tend to be extremely neurotic because they are stuck coming up with their own strategies and metrics, which have zero stakeholder buy-in and so ultimately do not matter. The only thing measured is number of widgets shipped. Design does not survive here. 2291
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024You cannot have product-driven business impact without a hypothesis for customer *usage* behavior - what they are doing with your thing after they buy it. Without that understanding, you're essentially gambling that customers will figure out what your product can do for them and therefore come back 2271
May Likes Product @productnerd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024If we borrow from physical products, engineers are effectively designers too. They figure out what parts work together to build a thing that does the things. The push for "metrics" and estimates have leaders expecting engineering to be more like manufacturing workers. Technical design is tricky! 000
