[Weekly Retro] A product team
#32 - Jan.2024
Hi all! Hope you had a good year start.
Here is a quick idea for the weekend:
A few things to keep in mind to build a strong product team:
- Align the vision & strategy
- Create the discipline to frequently connect with customers
- Review time allocation to focus on the right things
- Create useful mechanisms to keep accountability
- Use actionable product metrics for decision-making
- Create space to innovate through new ideas
But also consider:
- Build empathy for the different working styles within the team
- Promote people connections to build trust
- Allow autonomy to make decisions & experiment
- Celebrate your wins and reflect on your misses
- Acknowledge the value of everyone's contributions
It's about processes. It's about people. It's about creating things that matter.
Book I'm reading:
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin.
Interesting links I found during this week:
- The Rabbit R1
- The optimal morning routine
- Progressive Summarization: A Practical Technique for Designing Discoverable Notes
Quote of the week:
“Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are” ― Krishnamurti
