The 5-Minute Startup CTO #15

Product decisions, Simple design, Writing down progress

Here are your picks for this week:

🔄 Process makes perfect 

Product development is much more than writing code, and it’s typically what happens before, and after, code is written which goes wrong. So, how to better define product development tasks, and how to review their success?

Laura Klein goes through a clear and effective framework for this, including framing product ideas with a clear goal and metrics and reviewing success post-launch. Which echoes strongly the Product Canvas of Roman Pichler. Great stuff.

⌨️ If it ain’t code, don’t fix it

Software Architecture is overrated, and more importantly (IMHO) clear and simple design is underrated. Really good article driving home the point of making a discussion of tradeoffs and alternatives the best practice for coming up with a design. And keeping things simple, which is (bar none) my favorite angle on pretty much everything.

👩 It’s all about people

Another great tip from Dan Pink: to feel better about your work, take a minute every evening to write down your progress! Simples

I hope you enjoyed this. Have a great week!

Fabrice

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