Writing on product work that we keep coming back to, gathered from across the internet.
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The argument for treating work in progress as an organisational limit rather than a team one. Cagan uses Pandora and his own years at HP to show what happens when twenty initiatives are all described as critical, and he quotes Rumelt on concentrating resources on very few pivotal objectives.
The original write-up of the technique for connecting a desired outcome to the opportunities and experiments beneath it.
An outcome first roadmap format built from goals, timeframes, features and metrics. Pichler holds the feature column to a handful of items per goal, and that constraint is what stops the artefact drifting back into a release plan.
Written in 2009 and still the clearest account of how a dated feature list creates the very problems it was meant to solve. Cagan separates product, portfolio and external roadmaps, which is what most roadmap arguments are actually about once you unpick them.
The source of the RICE model, including how Intercom defined the confidence bands rather than leaving them to instinct.