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Anukriti Verma's avatar

Love your use of the analogy of a knife! Simple and effective, thanks for sharing this.

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Yuki's avatar

Such a simple yet powerful lesson!

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Irina Issakova's avatar

I am living this every day right now. Thank you for writing this so I can share this with my team.

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Swapnil Tandon's avatar

You have a great point! Cutting down the product strategy to the bare minimum also helps communicating it to your team and getting there consensus.

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Pradeep K's avatar

Amazing!! I love the clarity of the message on such a multi-disciplinary topic. "It's not prioritization until it hurts."

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Nandini's avatar

This article is such a great example of the very topic it addresses. It’s so tempting to become feature factories with the best of intentions, yet it’s so counter productive for the user. Thank you for taking the time to share.

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Pocket Sunshine 🔆's avatar

simple = clarity of thinking

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Christina Noren's avatar

Simplifying your product strategy is not the same as having a strategy of a simple single purpose product. Both are admirable much of the time but you are describing the latter, not the former, here.

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