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20Product: Why Process is Killing Your Product Team and How to Remove it | Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | Why the Best Companies Build Movements and Lessons from Shopify and Atlassian on How to Do It Right with Jean-Michel Lemieux

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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Measuring Progress and Avoiding Process Bottlenecks in Product Development

Measuring progress in product development is crucial by focusing on what is being shipped, rather than the amount of work done. The key metric is the consistency in shipping valuable code each week to maintain a steady cadence. This approach ensures a direct and practical assessment of progress without getting lost in unnecessary processes. The speaker emphasizes the importance of making good decisions, writing code efficiently, and discussing architecture over focusing on excessive planning processes that can create time horizon friction. Time horizon friction, caused by overemphasis on planning, slows down teams. The speaker advocates for a lean approach to product development, prioritizing actionable outcomes over extensive planning, which can impede progress.

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