Martin Cagan and Joakim Sunden: The Product Model at Spotify. I don’t think they get the credit in the product community they deserve. I believe that’s mostly because people that think they know “The Spotify Model” are focused on the wrong things, and not what has made them such a strong, long-term competitor (more)

Henrik Kniberg: Scaling (PDF) Agile at Spotify. Dealing with multiple teams in a product development organization is always a challenge! One of the most impressive examples we’ve seen so far is Spotify, which has kept an agile mindset despite having scaled to over 30 teams across 3 cities. (more)

startup of John Cutler, Steve Elliott, Kyle Bird - tool+services supporting a Product Operating Model (using AI?) https://www.dotwork.com/

prioritization model based on three-set measurements: Impact, Confidence, and Ease from Sean Ellis (more)

Itamar Gilad: Why you should stop using product roadmaps and try the GIST Framework. Here’s what I used to do:... there is almost no room for agility — changes at the top cause huge ripple effects of replanning and project cancellations at the bottom. Agile development addressed project waterfall, but didn’t change planning waterfall. So, what’s the alternative? GIST. (more)

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Roger L Martin CM (born 4 August 1956) is the former Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto from 1998 to 2013 and an author of several business books.[1] Martin has expanded several important business concepts in use today, including integrative thinking. He has been recognized by several business publications as one of the field's most important thinkers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Martin_(professor) (more)

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster, book by Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz https://leananalyticsbook.com/ (more)

Noah Kagan taught Jason Cohen to Focus on 1 (AARRR) Metric and ignore everything else. He chose to focus on signups. (more)

model/structure of multiple metrics for your organization (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Why business intelligence falls flat. It wasn't that people didn't care about the story the data was telling. They did care, and they were worried that the numbers were flat. The problem was they had no idea what they could do about it. The metrics in the dashboard were divorced from the actual work happening on the ground. (more)

a business metric that's a leading indicator, an input, which you believe you can improve, and believe that will lead to a positive outcome. (actionable) (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Input metrics are so hard that most product teams give up. Teams can’t usually launch a product or marketing update and immediately see the business impact. They need input metrics to measure the results of their efforts. (more)

product management tool with emphasis on north-star metric and other metrics https://doubleloop.app/ aka DoubleLoop.app. See CEO Daniel Schmidt. (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Customer focus isn't enough. To thrive long-term, companies must be customer-focused and business-oriented at the same time. It might seem that these two ways of operating are in tension with each other. They are not. (more)

Southwest Airlines Co., or simply Southwest, is a major airline in the United States that formerly[citation needed] operated on a low-cost carrier model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines

Steve Blank model for Customer Development. (more)

The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you - Rob Fitzpatrick (more)

customer discovery interviewing, see esp Problem Interview and Solution Interview

Daniel Schmidt: Metrics-driven product development is hard. (Data-Informed Product Management) The way that the FAANG companies use metrics to build products is vital to their success. They invest an army of people and homegrown tools to pull it off. My last article, Balancing short-term and long-term product bets, describes Google's process. While the very top companies are great at using metrics, after talking to the hundreds of PMs who signed up for DoubleLoop.com, I’ve learned that almost everyone else is struggling. (more)