Companies and Product Organizations

Discussions about various companies and their product organizations, critiquing Facebook's meta strategy, emphasizing the importance of accountability and consistency, and the value of documenting processes and specifications.

Transcript

chevron_right

Play full episode

chevron_right

Transcript

Episode notes

Marty sits down with Will Cole to discuss his new writing on the five invariant elements of product management and how to build an effective strategy for your company.

Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/willcole

0:00 - Intro

6:17 - Marty is sleepy

11:07 - Stories behind Will’s writing

19:10 - Invariants and levels of abstraction

30:25 - Why a product manager exists

33:57 - Think, then do

36:30 - Running through the invariants and strategy doc

42:41 - Timeline

46:55 - Minimizing meetings with good writing

48:53 - Iterating vs incrementing

56:44 - Who has better and worse product management?