The Product Model

Cross-Functional #53: This week: Top 10 OKR questions, insights without access to customers and why group brainstorming is a waste of time.

 
This week we look at the top 10 OKR questions, getting insights without access to customers and why group brainstorming is a waste of time. 
 
 
Enabling the Team
In R&D, Generalists Are More Valuable Than You Think by Frank Nagle and Florenta Teodoridis
Innovation is the result of creatively combining various kinds of knowledge. Generalists help create connections - specialists help to execute.
OKR FAQ: Top 10 Questions About Objectives And Key Results by Jeff Gothelf
Questions from Jeff's OKR masterclass including involving UX, dealing with annual budgets, OKRs and individual performance and more.
 
 
Product Vision
 
An overview of the role of product management.
How feature flags can be used by Product Managers to deliver better experiences to customers.
Continuous Research
 
Sidra shares her non-traditional channels on conducting user research for complex government services.
Learn the different UX mapping techniques that you can use to present your findings and create shared alignment within the product team.
 
 
Ideate & Design
 
Get the right people in the room, get a strong facilitator, have a clear agenda, try a few different techniques and gather your results.
Why Group Brainstorming Is a Waste of Time by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Group brainstorming falls into the traps of social loafing, social anxiety, regression to the mean and production blocking. Work separately and then share.
Architect & Build
 
David offers some advice on how to effectively deal with tech debt and the approach he took with his team as PM.
BlackRock describes their infrastructure stack including their alerting strategy, SLO metrics, and back-testing.
 
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