If everyone has an understanding of why we're doing this, what problem we're solving, then people can make really great decisions. It's the only way you can really scale.
Yuhki YamashitaAn inside look at how Figma builds product
Clear why beats detailed how
Execution → Working with Engineering
The biggest one I think is, the founder becomes too tactical and disempowers their team. I think the founder thinks they know what customers want and they basically just tell the engineers what to build.
Gokul RajaramGokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, and more
We get a lot of requests for features and a lot of them are basically about opinions, some way to record opinions. We're not going to do those.
Andy RaskinThe power of strategic narrative
One of the things I think that happens is when you build a team and you start creating these very specific roles for everything I think that often the PM can be the ones figuring things out and making decisions and guiding the team, but they're not the ones building the feature. They're not there looking at it the whole day like where does this button go or how does it work?
Karri SaarinenInside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus