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Why products stagnate after launch—and how usability evolution, not new features, determines whether software stays relevant over time.
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Products are invented to solve needs, but they stay relevant only when teams continuously evolve usability—revisiting old features, removing outdated constraints, and refining designs based on real user behavior.

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If your definition of success begins and ends with “on time and on budget,” you’re not delivering outcomes. You’re delivering closure.
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If your definition of success begins and ends with “on time and on budget,” you’re not delivering outcomes. You’re delivering closure.

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Specs tell you what to build. Decision records tell you why. How simple documentation prevents teams from rediscovering past mistakes and losing organizational
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Designers often don't document the decisions they make. This can lead to decisions being made without understanding the real reasons. Good documentation assumes future people are smart and will rightfully question your choices.

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A first-person perspective for tech PMs building money, risk, and trust at scale.
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Regulation does not show up as paperwork, it shows up as questions the system would eventually be forced to answer.

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Many product teams slow down because of how PMs operate. This article explores how great product managers remove friction and design teams for speed.
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Product managers are expected to accelerate the speed of product delivery by removing bottlenecks. However, some product managers unintentionally become or create bottlenecks. What great PMs do is that they don’t try to answer every question; they only set the guiding principles. They also replace rigid specs with intent, create ruthless clarity on priorities, enable direct collaboration, and optimize the team for momentum rather than perfection.

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Case study: daily routine fixes that unblocked art implementation—raising merges to 8.5 branches/version and cutting bugs to 0.75/branch.
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After optimizing our art pipeline, we still hit major delays at implementation and testing — where art first meets other departments. We ran a “live-like” version with balanced scope and found only 10% of near-final skins reached master after three sprints. By improving daily routines and cross-team interaction, we reached ~8.5 merged branches per version, reduced bugs to 0.75 per branch over six months, and kept average test time at ~1.1 weeks.

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Many habit trackers fail because they make quitting frictionless.
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Many habit trackers fail because they make quitting frictionless. This article explains why relying on motivation instead of UX and system design leads to poor follow-through, and how accountability and commitment constraints improve consistency.

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See why answer engines are becoming the new funnel entry in eCommerce.
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See why answer engines are becoming the new funnel entry in eCommerce.