Stop / Pivot / Invest: A Survival Metrics Primer
Your team already knows which products on your roadmap shouldn't be there. They have no legitimate mechanism to say so. Three weeks. Three versions of the same problem.
Product Management Expert
Your team already knows which products on your roadmap shouldn't be there. They have no legitimate mechanism to say so. Three weeks. Three versions of the same problem.
"Vibe code, launch, and abandon" is the culture being championed right now. Build fast. Ship fast. Move on. The pitch is compelling — AI makes building cheap, momentum matters,
Every zombie product has a meeting where it should have died. A room where someone has the data. Someone has the instinct. Someone has the track record to name the
Maintenance is not an engineering problem. It's a leadership decision that most product organizations never make. Your roadmap hides the real cost. Your team absorbs the trust damage.
Your dashboard isn't lying to you. Your strategy is lying to your dashboard. Most metrics tell you what's happening. They don't tell you whether
Your team is shipping faster than ever and delivering less than ever. That's not a paradox. That's what happens when prototypes silently graduate into production. When
The people pushing for speed are never the ones who get paged. Your CEO wants more vibe coding. Your head of sales wants features faster. Your product leaders want to
Everything your team builds has two prices. Your organization is only looking at one of them. The first price is the build. Requirements, design, sprints, launch. It's visible.
Clarity
Your product strategy is probably committing at least one of these sins right now. Maybe all five. That's not an insult — it's a pattern. After working
Delivery
Strategies don't announce when they've stopped working. They don't send a notification. They don't turn red on your dashboard. They just quietly