Escaping the Feature Factory
About this book
Cutler's collected writing on the feature factory pattern, where teams ship features on a schedule with no feedback loop to outcomes. Covers the signals that you are in one, including no discovery, success measured at delivery, and constant context switching. Also covers the practices that move a team out, including outcome framing, working in small batches, and making the cost of delay and the size of the queue visible.
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- The north star metricOne measure of the value a product delivers, the input measures beneath it that a team can move directly, the four properties a candidate has to pass before anybody commits to it, and the parts of a business a single number will never describe.
- Outcome and outputOutput is what the team produced. Outcome is what changed for someone because of it. A product owner is accountable for the second and is usually measured on the first.