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The Beautiful Mess of Product Development with John Cutler
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Quick takeaways
- Deep alignment in product development involves understanding and acknowledging different frames and perspectives on a given problem, rather than simply converging on a single perspective.
- Teams should focus on exploring and understanding different frames and perspectives, allowing for deeper alignment, instead of rushing to alignment which often leads to oversimplification and the loss of coherence.
Deep dives
The Importance of Deep Alignment in Product Development
In this podcast episode, John Cutler discusses the concept of alignment in product development. He argues that the current notion of alignment is shallow and often leads to premature convergence. Instead, he advocates for deep alignment, which involves understanding and acknowledging different frames and perspectives on a given problem. Cutler emphasizes the importance of developing a coherent view of the problem, even if team members do not agree on every aspect. He shares an example of a design and research team that struggled with alignment due to a lack of understanding of each other's different frames on the customer problem. Cutler suggests that deep alignment requires structural and organizational considerations rather than simply converging on a single perspective.
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