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tl;dr: successful product-focused teams have a clear Product Narrative that defines who to build for, why to build for them, how to build it, and what to actually build. Moreover, a Narrative sets the direction for a team – a charter that unifies everyone together, identifying the target customers and their problems to be solved. 
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tl;dr: Successful teams and companies can strike a harmonious balance between inclusiveness and clarity in decision-making. Most unnecessarily over-index one over the other, while those that fail don’t index any of these aspects at all.  (credited to Mindy, for illustrating this diagram) TL;DR: building and adopting a trusted model for prioritizing work is critical to the organization, focus and ultimately success of a platform team. I’m a Platform Product Manager on Mobile, and we recently jammed around how to optimize efficiency of our workload. There are many ways to tackle this: the 10:20:70 rule, the 50:50 rule, et al. I like, and have proven to find most useful, the 60:20:20 rule:  (these representative states by no means reflect the state that my current employer is in) |
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