👋 Hey! My name is Piotr, and welcome to my newsletter on building blocks for successful tech product companies.
💬 In this week's issue:
👉 Best practice spotlight: Inspire your teams by providing a compelling vision of the future you want to unlock
➕ … and three other best practices
👉 A product discovery technique - Opportunity Solution Tree
👉 How can paying technical debt 2x your team’s impact?
👉 6-step guide to take control of your calendar.
👉 Ethics in product design
🔍 Best practice spotlight: Provide inspiring vision
A vision describes an exciting future you want to unlock.
Example of vision: Create the most compelling car company of the 21st century. (Tesla)
Learn more:
Why should you care about setting the vision?
What are examples of great vision?
What are the characteristics of a great vision?
How to create a great vision?
Who should be involved?
What else, besides vision, should be in your strategic context?
How to create a strategy once you have a vision?
Templates & more things to read
The Product Vision Template
Product Vision FAQ
Vision vs. Mission
Vision vs. Strategy
Company Vision Workshop Miro template
Other best practices
A few other best practices to pick your interest:
Other good reads
Three Product Teams
by John Cutler
Comparison of three popular models for product teams
Sprint, Story, and Backlog-Centric
Team and Mission-Centric
Engineer-Centric (with Rockstar PMs)
Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Thinking
by Teresa Torres
A helpful product discovery technique to visualize and chart the best path to your desired outcome.
Technical debt: Can investing in it unlock 2x team impact?
by Will Larson
A good, outcome-oriented approach to paying technical debt with a simple 4-steps guide on how to start today.
Designing Your Time as a Leader
by Don Neufeld
6-step guide to take control of your calendar.
Are You Solving the Right Problems?
by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
A longer post on how powerful problem-reframing can be, including 7 practical exercises to do on your own.
6 Questions all experienced designers should be able to answer
by Koos Looijesteijn
Great, thought-provoking post about ethics in product design.
🐦 Tweet of the week
🍞 Food for thought
😄 Weekly smile
Have a great week!
Piotr 👋