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• **Feature Work -** Creating and capturing value by extending a product's functionality and market into incremental and adjacent areas.
• **Growth Work -** Creating and capturing value by accelerating adoption and usage by the existing market.
• **Scaling Work -** Focusing on bottlenecks to ensure the team can continue to move forward and take on new levels of feature, growth, and product-market fit expansion work.
• **Product-Market Fit Expansion -** Increasing the ceiling on product-market fit in a non-incremental way by expanding into an adjacent market, adjacent product, or both.
> *"One of the most common conflicts I've seen is when product leaders try to apply a single development process, measure of success, and strategy to all product work. For instance, while some of the steps can be similar, growth and feature work are fundamentally different and a lot of energy is wasted trying to make them all fit into the same process, success metric, and approach."* **-** **Fareed Mosavat**, **former Director of Product at Slack**
Product Work Beyond Product-Market Fit
Fareed Mosavat & Casey Winters
• **The spite draft.** Ask AI to write your piece. Read it. Get mad at how bad it is. Write it yourself, better, fueled by righteous indignation.
• **The slop bomb.** Struggling with procrastination? Ask the AI to write it for you and tell it if you do not share your own draft within the hour then it should send the AI-generated slop draft to your editor claiming it is your own work. The threat of humiliation will compel you to get over your writers’ block.
• **The originality test.** Start writing your sentence, then stop halfway through and ask the AI to finish it. If it finishes the sentence the way you were going to, it turns out what you were about to say was not that unique and you might need to think some more.
• **The sparring partner.** If you’re blocked, open Claude and just start talking until you figure out what you actually think. Then close the window and ignore whatever Claude said. You just needed a wall to throw the ball against. Engineers call this rubber ducking. See? Wario!
Writers Are Wario Software Developers
Hilary Gridley
Upon evaluating the main challenges faced by the product management team, I identified a few issues: they had no easy access to data; the strategy and roadmap planning cadences were taking a huge amount of time; and there were no consistent templates across the organization. The product managers were eager to apply their training, but they felt stuck. Product leaders felt stuck, too. They couldn’t reconcile the roadmaps at scale.
Product Operations
Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
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