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Product work is choosing what not to build.
Understand what product discipline means at a small agency.
Ask users what they do, not what they want.
Run practical, scrappy user research that focuses on actual behavior.
Did it work? Go check.
Measure whether a shipped feature met its goals, and decide what to do if it failed.
Merge code. Don't release yet.
Use feature flags to decouple deployment from release and avoid panicked rollbacks.
The backlog is lying to you.
Decide what to build next using a framework that cuts through noise and stakeholder pressure.
Write the spec first, then debate it.
Create product specs that define what to build, what to skip, and when a spec is done.
Internalize the handbook.
Understand what internalizing these product practices looks like in day to day work.