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23 Jul 2023 Lenny's Podcast The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)

“I think the byproduct is that you also get calibration on product pace, product quality, and as a team you develop that together.”

— Noah Weiss

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Noah Weiss
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23 Jul 2023
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Lenny's Podcast

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…It's similar to a process that I learned Stripe has called friction logging. But I love the nuance here of starting with someone else's product because I could totally see how that makes you feel better looking at your product in real life. It's not like we suck. It's okay, everyone's has so much opportunity. Exactly. Yeah. I've heard that from Stripe, too. I think gets a similar place. I think it's the doing it ... I think the byproduct is that you also get calibration on product pace, product quality, and as a team you develop that together. Again, similar to the principles, it's like how do you get these things that are hard to actually feel collectively on the same page about and how do you calibrate? It's another good way to do it. I'm imagining some PMs might be hearing this and wonder, "Okay. Great. Now the founders and the execs have all these things that they want us to fix. I have goals to hit. I got a roadmap. How do you think about prioritizing things that come up in these sorts of sessions for the team and how do they mix and match versus all the other stuff that you want to do? Or is it just like they don't actually have a huge roadmap and this is a way to inform the roadmap?…

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