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Product Strategy as a System

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Like any system, it is a collection of interconnecting parts that function as a whole. If so, what are they?

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Stop monitoring systems; start monitoring outcomes

Intercom, Inc.

This question has led us to develop what we call “heartbeat metrics” – vital signs that instantly tell us if our systems are truly serving their purpose. Modern systems are complex. Multiple heartbeats: How we monitor Engineering reliably at scale means recognizing that complex systems need multiple vital signs.

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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes. Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] The Burnout Signal: The Hidden System Behind High-Performer Collapse

The Product Guy

It hides inside systems that reward responsiveness and velocity but slowly drain energy, clarity, and motivation. It is systemic. As a product leader, you are in a unique position to influence that system. As a product leader, you are in a unique position to influence that system. And it’s not personal weakness.

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How to Streamline Payment Applications & Lien Waivers Through Innovative Construction Technology

Speaker: Dylan Secrest, Founder of Alamo Innovation and Construction Digital Transformation Consultant

Join expert Dylan Secrest to discover how leading contractors are turning payment chaos into clarity using digital workflows, integrated systems, and automation strategies. Build a Scalable Payment Workflow 🚀 Design repeatable, tech-enabled systems that support growth and reduce administrative overhead. The good news?

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Sunday Rewind: Top 7 signs you’re in a bad product system by Scott Williamson

Mind the Product

This weeks Sunday Rewind goes back to 2022 and a #mtpcon SF+Americas 2022 keynote from Scott Williamson, former Chief Product Officer at GitLab, who offers seven signs that you may be in a bad product system, and gives some practical and actionable advice on making meaningful changes.

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How X built the best fact-checking system on the internet | Keith Coleman (VP of Product) and Jay Baxter (ML Lead)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs • Productboard —Make products that matter • Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies — Keith Coleman (VP of product) and Jay Baxter (founding ML engineer), the minds behind Community Notes, reveal how (..)

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API.

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Innovation Systems: Advancing Practices to Create New Value

As technology transforms the global business landscape, companies need to examine and update their internal processes for innovation to keep pace. Ultimately, organizations will have to improve the velocity of innovation by creating repeatable processes that support ideation, exploration, and incubation, essential to capturing an idea’s full value.

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Trusted AI 102: A Guide to Building Fair and Unbiased AI Systems

The risk of bias in artificial intelligence (AI) has been the source of much concern and debate. Numerous high-profile examples demonstrate the reality that AI is not a default “neutral” technology and can come to reflect or exacerbate bias encoded in human data.

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Resilient Machine Learning with MLOps

But we can take the right actions to prevent failure and ensure that AI systems perform to predictably high standards, meet business needs, unlock additional resources for financial sustainability, and reflect the real patterns observed in the outside world.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Learn ten rules that will help you perfect your Kafka system to get ahead. Kafka is a powerful piece of software that can solve a lot of problems. Like most libraries and frameworks, you get out of it what you put into it.

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10 Rules to More Streamlined Data Modeling

Learn 10 rules that will help you perfect your Kafka system to get ahead. Apache Kafka is a powerful piece of software that can solve a lot of problems. Like most libraries and frameworks, you get out of it what you put into it.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems. Download this eBook to learn about: The changing state of containers in the cloud and explore why orchestration technologies have become an essential part of today’s container ecosystem.