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The PM's quiet leverage: deciding what not to build
Lenny's Newsletter · Product Strategy
- •Lenny looked at 40 senior PMs, and the calm teams all did one thing.
- •They kept a page of what they said no to: the request, the cost, and what would flip it to a yes.
- •Teams with that page had about half as many surprise scope changes mid-quarter.
- •For your roadmap: keep this no-list and a no still holds when an exec reopens the ask two months later.
Activation is a promise, not a funnel step
Reforge Blog · Growth & Retention
- •Reforge studied 60 B2B products and found most track the wrong moment.
- •They count the end of signup, not the first real win like a report shared or an invoice sent.
- •Teams that tracked the real first win kept 15 to 30% more people after a month, with no new marketing.
- •For your activation metric: pick the one real first win and track that. It predicts who stays far better than signups.
What an AI feature owes the rest of the roadmap
The Product Compass · AI in Product
- •Paweł Huryn prices the real cost of an AI feature, and it is not the model bill.
- •It is the two roadmap slots it eats: building evals, and designing what happens when the AI is wrong.
- •Teams that used his worksheet cut their AI plans in half and shipped the rest with fewer rollbacks.
- •For your quarter plan: name what you will stop shipping to staff the AI work, before you commit.
The retention curve that flattens is the only one that matters
Casey Winters · Growth & Retention
- •Casey Winters says one chart should decide whether you spend on growth: cohort retention.
- •A flat line means every dollar adds up, while a falling one turns spend into a leaky bucket.
- •His examples show the same cost leading to 5x different results by month 12.
- •For your growth budget: ask for this curve before you approve another dollar of acquisition.
Discovery without theater: five questions before the spec
Product Talk · Discovery & Research
- •Teresa Torres boils hundreds of coaching sessions into five questions to answer before a spec.
- •Two of them: what would have to be true for this to fail, and who loses if it ships.
- •Teams that used the list killed or reshaped about a third of their bets in a week, before any code.
- •For your next spec: most discovery just confirms the idea you walked in with, and these five questions do not.
*The math: this week's 5 articles take 43 mins to read. The summaries above take about 5 mins. 43 - 5 = 38 mins saved.
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