Responsive roadmaps, and three management behaviors to strive for
Hi there, and welcome to another edition of Elezea! This is a newsletter focused on interesting and helpful reading about technology, software development, and internet culture. Responsive roadmaps, and three management behaviors to strive forAlso a bit about the brand journeys of Liquid Death and Folgers Coffee.Before I get into it today, let me just say that they way Twitter is handling the impending layoffs is completely inhumane and unacceptable. It’s also in such contrast to how it could be done. Consider, for example, the way Stripe’s leaders took full responsibility for what happened, and tried their best to help affected employees. There is no good way to do a layoff, but there are better ways, and Stripe shows us how to remain human during the process. If you are affected today (or are looking for a new role in general), check out my friend Vicki’s Twitter feed. She is retweeting a long list of companies that are still actively hiring: Hello tech friends. If you are still hiring, please reply to this with links to jobs and share. If you can help in any capacity also please reply. As long as we’re in this dumpster fire let’s get toasty together. Ok, so this is not going to become a Twitter newsletter, I promise, but the story is fascinating on so many levels that I have to reflect on a couple more interesting articles about it. First, let me say that Ryan nailed the ultimate take on the proposed $8/month Twitter Blue plan:
Second, I am really intrigued by how hard Substack is leaning into the changes:
I am really loving what Substack is doing right now. They are shipping so many interesting things, and they are doing it fast (the new chat feature looks really cool). The things they are shipping might not all succeed, but I am loving the fearless experimenting. It is truly refreshing. Product and leadership readingRuss Laraway simplifies what good managers should be focused on in Stop Overcomplicating It: The Simple Guidebook to Upping Your Management Game:
He goes into detail on each of those behaviors in the rest of the article. In the previous issue I talked about alternatives to timeline-based roadmaps, and in Responsive roadmaps Matthew Ström goes deep on another alternative:
I also love his illustration of what tends to happen with timeline-based roadmaps: Sam Richard talks about how user journeys in product-led companies are different from sales-led companies in The New User Journey: Follow Your Users to Understand how to Excel at Go-to-Market:
She goes on to define a user journey for product-led growth that pays special attention to the “activation” step: that moment when a user discovers why they want to keep using your product. Some stray links
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