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Ian's avatar

@eric - I thought you may like to checkout this new product https://rows.com/ as an example of "instant utility" and "speed to core value".

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Tim C's avatar

Great article and the Mad Season album is amazing.

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Eric Leach's avatar

Thanks Tim. Appreciate you taking a look. Some artists and albums just seem to stick with us over the years (decades!?) and it’s always fun to come across someone who’s like, yeah me too!

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Sarah L's avatar

Love this. The only one I would add for my product set is to know what you want to get good at.

If a capability exists anywhere in your toolset, reuse it and don’t reinvent. Evaluate buying if necessary.

Different constraints can help drive this behavior- budget, skill sets, ruthless feature prioritization, time, culture.

Spend time and money providing differentiators that will improve business impact. Consume everything else.

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Eric Leach's avatar

Sarah - that makes a ton of sense. Would a good label for that be something like, optimize value delivery?

What's the exercise you go through to figure out the one thing (or few things) you want to be good at?

I'm considering a future article about assemble/buy vs. build/innovate. Sounds like that would align with your point here.

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