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The beautiful mess of cross-functional product development. Click to read The Beautiful Mess, by John Cutler, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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TBM 354: The 4 Framework Jobs (And Why It Matters)
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-354-the-4-framework-jobs-and
Published: April 27, 2025 22:39
But the real problem isn’t the number of frameworks, it’s that we’re often not clear about why we’re using them. Even when a team chooses a framework thoughtfully, people may still disagree about what they’re trying to accomplish. Are they trying to teach…
TBM 353: Conversation Quality and Scale
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-353-conversation-quality-and
Published: April 23, 2025 21:20
You can often "just tell" how a team (or company) is doing by listening deeply to their conversations and observing how they interact. You can also boil an operating system down to how intentional people are about creating conditions where awesome…
TBM 352: Funding, Planning, and Context
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-352-funding-planning-and-context
Published: April 20, 2025 07:53
This post is all about planning, funding, and context. My main thesis is as follows: In a lot of early-stage startups and companies experiencing rapid growth, there is basically only one context. Any variation is consumed by inertia and the “one thing”.…
TBM 351: The 4 Prioritization Jobs (And Why It Matters)
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-351-the-4-prioritization-jobs
Published: April 15, 2025 00:01
After all these years, I finally put something into words about prioritization.
TBM 350: Connecting Dots
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-350-connecting-dots
Published: April 11, 2025 08:44
As the title of my newsletter suggests, I'm obsessed with the mess of product development. Over the last couple of weeks, I've spent a lot of time with operations leaders trying to bring some order to that mess. They show me mad-scientist Miro boards,…
TBM 349: A "Product Transformation" North Star
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-349-a-product-transformation
Published: April 7, 2025 01:40
What % of product teams in your company can operate fairly independently while having a clear line of impact from their day-to-day work to what matters for customers and the company?
TBM 348: Shared Understanding At Scale
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-348-shared-understanding-at-scale
Published: March 30, 2025 10:08
Information overload, lossy models, telephone games, the lure of loops, pretty-but-mostly-worthless-cascades, and the quest for the one roadmap view to rule them all.