There once was a man from Nantucket...

I'm going with function. But I'm also considering Journey and Transaction instead of Feature and Funcation as it's more user focused.

#Weeknotes 488, featuring the multi-inheritance problem, machine-readable organisations, OKRs and health metrics, maintenance, reverse RACI and wicked learning environments.

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A product is defined by its user outcomes and business objectives, not by its technology.

Interviewing engineers is an exercise in sociotechnical systems theory.

Oh Christopher! I'm sure there are much better things to spend £9m on.

So, is AI a general purpose technology, then? Have we reached that conclusion?

You can see culture eating strategy when ideas expressed in strategies become internalised by employees and are just what they do. It's a feature, not a bug.

What's smaller than a feature?

Excel feature request: turn a cell into a button without having to put a URL in it.

Is AI just TL;DR-as-a-service?

Retros are great, but they are full of bias. That's why they need good analysis.

What I wouldn't give for some 'State of product management in higher education' research right about now.

If you prioritise by ease you're basically telling your users that's what convenient for you is more important than what's valuable to them.

Yes please! Would love to read it.

Well, November, you had it all. Wind, rain, snow, ice, sun, mist. See you again next year.

#Weeknotes 487, featuring 46% of my time with people, training vs education, think big act small, jaggedness, on-demand work, undysfunctioning teams and why being a product manager is so cool.

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How do we define our products is a very different from what can we productise.

There's definitely a gap in the market for recruiting and onboarding teams into organisations.

Microsoft Teams feature request: x2 speed for meetings. Actual meetings, not recordings.

Billionaires can get away with anything.

I did not know they'd remade Flatliners.

Auto-play videos in emails. What fresh hell?

Version 0.0.1 of any product is one person with a spreadsheet. Iterate from there.

How come email never really went the way of chat by grouping messages by recipient?

Why don't laptops have cup holders?

#Weeknotes 486, featuring DevSecOps, problemism, continuous digital transformation, no more boxes, no more MVPs, getting stuff wrong, from industrial to internet mindset, every team needs, tension in product strategy, compound interest & keeping up with the market

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Then it's not a backlog.

Chaos test your org. Tell a leader to suddenly take a week off with no handover and find out how much of a bottleneck or single point of failure they are.

If your roadmap is your backlog turned sideways, it's not a roadmap.