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“Work backwards from the narrative.”
That's the key to not shipping the org chart.
Here's Sanchan (ex-head of product at Airbnb) on how narrative-led product development works:
1. Create a narrative of what you want the customer to experience and feel
2. Challenge each team to work together to deliver the narrative
3. Deliver all features that bring the narrative to life at once
This way, teams are encouraged to work together to create a compelling customer journey instead of building in their own silos.
Note by Peter Yang on Substack
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Our new process: 1. Sit and chat about what we need to build, doing research with Deep Research as we go. 2. Have AI record everything and turn it into a spec. 3. Clean up the spec, adding any design requirements / other nuances. 4. Have Devin code it up. 5. QA, merge, (auto-)deploy to prod.
- [Sahil Lavingia](https://x.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1887495898822787189?ref=ghuntley.com) (Founder of Gumroad)
The Future Belongs to Idea Guys Who Can Just Do Things
Geoffrey Huntley
What I would advise is that you first work to discover the very most promising opportunities for the business. Those opportunities may be internal, fixing bottlenecks and constraints in the way people work, or external. To do this, you should probably pull together a small team of people and take a month to do a review of who your buyers are, who you compete with, and what opportunities exist. It’s normally a good idea to look very closely at what is changing in your business, where you might get a jump on the competition.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
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