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The one metric most PM dashboards are missing: stickiness ratio (DAU/MAU).

Revenue tells you what happened. Churn tells you who left. Stickiness tells you who is about to leave.

A product at 40% stickiness has a retention problem brewing. Track the input, not the output.

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Built a free tool to map what you learn from those conversations into product decisions: https://t.co/yDmBjtUblV

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Before building anything new, talk to 5 customers. Not a survey. Conversations. After 5 interviews on the same topic, you will hear the same patterns. If you do not, do 5 more.

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Free adaptive roadmap builder: https://t.co/yDmBjtUblV

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The best roadmap I have ever seen had three sections:

Now (building it)
Next (validated, sequenced)
Later (exploring)

No dates. No Gantt charts. Just clarity.

AI compresses build cycles to weeks. A fixed 6-month plan is outdated before Q2.

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The moment you put "Q3" next to a feature, three things happen:

1. Sales treats it as a commitment
2. Leadership treats it as a deadline
3. You spend 6 months defending a date instead of validating an idea

Use confidence levels, not dates.

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"But our VP wants this feature" isn't a prioritization strategy.

Ask: "What's the customer problem? What metric moves? What's the opportunity cost?"

Turn opinions into data. Then have the conversation.

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Free career path tool if you want to map your PM growth trajectory: https://t.co/wGK1cb2TdP

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One habit that accelerated my PM career: quarterly skip-level 1:1s with my boss's boss.

Ask about strategy, not status. You'll learn things that make your roadmap decisions better.

And the person who decides promotions will know your thinking.

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Useful competitive analysis fits on one slide.

Not feature comparisons. Answer these:
- What bet is each competitor making?
- Where are they NOT investing?
- What would make a customer switch?

Update quarterly. That's it.

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Free stakeholder alignment frameworks: https://t.co/U9MbLP4u55

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When a stakeholder pushes for a feature you think is wrong, don't argue.

Ask: "Help me understand the customer problem behind this."

80% of the time, the problem is valid but the proposed solution is wrong.

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If you're not slightly embarrassed by v1, you waited too long.

Cut scope to the core value prop. Ship to 10% of users. Measure. Then iterate.

8 weeks of polish < 8 weeks of learning.

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Built a free tool to stress-test feature ideas before you build: https://t.co/yDmBjtUblV

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Before adding AI to your product, ask:

"Would a user pay for this feature if a human did it instantly?"

If no, the AI version won't help either. The feature is the problem, not the technology.

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I built a free guide on product discovery and customer research techniques: https://t.co/JkjlmDilmG

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Customer interview tip: never ask "would you use this feature?"

The answer is always yes. It means nothing.

Ask: "Tell me about the last time you had this problem. What did you do?"

Past behavior > hypothetical intentions.

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Your dashboard is probably all lagging indicators.

Revenue, churn, NPS — by the time they move, it's too late.

Find the leading indicators: 7-day login frequency, activation rate, feature adoption depth. Catch problems weeks early.

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Pick any ticket in your sprint backlog.

Can you explain in one sentence how it connects to company strategy?

If you can't, it's either misaligned or under-communicated. Both are fixable.

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Wrote a guide on building outcome-based roadmaps: https://t.co/Y2nL2OqnKJ

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Put outcomes on your roadmap, not features.

"Build SSO" locks you into a solution.
"Reduce enterprise deal cycle by 15 days" lets your team find the right one.