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Shreyas Doshi

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The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)

Aug 25, 20221h 31m

Guest: Shreyas Doshi - Former Product Leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google, and Yahoo. Shreyas is renowned for sharing insightful and often contrarian perspectives on product management, drawing from his extensive experience at leading tech companies. Key Takeaways: Pre-mortems: Conduct pre-mortem meetings to identify potential project failures before they occur, using categories like tigers (real threats), paper tigers (seeming threats), and elephants (unspoken issues). LNO Framework: Prioritize tasks by categorizing them as leverage (L), neutral (N), or overhead (O) tasks, focusing on high-leverage tasks that provide significant impact. Three Levels of Product Work: Align team efforts by understanding the focus on impact, execution, or optics, and ensure alignment with leadership priorities to avoid conflicts. Execution Problems: Most execution issues are rooted in strategy or cultural problems rather than pure execution failures. Opportunity Cost vs. ROI: Shift from prioritizing tasks based on ROI to minimizing opportunity cost, focusing on the most impactful opportunities rather than quick wins. Topics Covered: Pre-mortems, LNO framework, product work levels, execution vs. strategy problems, opportunity cost in prioritization, high agency in PMs.

Notable Quotes

โ€œHigh agency is about finding a way to get what you want without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming the circumstances.โ€

High Agency

โ€œOwnership mindset is one component of high agency. They took strong ownership and then they creatively executed through the challenges.โ€

High Agency

โ€œAs I look at both of those situations, it became clear to me that high agency was a big contributor.โ€

High Agency