[AI] How Meta and Instagram Use Pre-Mortems to Avoid Post-Mortems

12/04/24 • 14 min

The Product Compass Podcast | Product Management

Many engineering teams run post-mortems when there is a failure or error. The team needs to come together to discuss what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again.
But what if we could anticipate and prevent these failures before they happen? Enter the pre-mortem.
Pre-mortems are a powerful tool that the best product teams at Google, Meta, Stripe, and others use regularly to increase the probability of a successful product launch and avoid difficult-to-recover failures.
This AI-generated episode is based on How Meta and Instagram Use Pre-Mortems to Avoid Post-Mortems from The Product Compass Newsletter, where Yue Zhao (CPTO, Coach, Author) shares how pre-mortems can benefit your team and provides actionable steps to run an effective session.
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The Product Compass, Ask me anything, October 10, 2024

Hey, welcome to the Product Compass. This is not a podcast but a monthly "Ask Me Anything" with Pawel Huryn recorded on October 10, 2024.
We discussed:

(00:21) How to make sense of the Product Trio for platform teams?
(01:51) Strong opinions on the Product Trio tackling different risks?
(05:28) How can we keep stakeholders engaged?
(07:00) How to perform Product Discovery before Product-Market Fit?
(09:21) Is the idea more important than the execution?
(12:08) Is the Product Manager a mini CEO?
(15:11) How important is technical knowledge for a Product Manager?
(19:17) How do you find time for product discovery?
(23:52) Is DevEx a Customer Experience for internal product teams?
(28:09) Your transition from Project Manager to Product Manager?
(34:17) How to become a Product Manager? What is the learning path?

Next Episode

[AI] Your Guide to Feature Detox: Winning Through Simplifying

It's tempting to think adding more features will help you satisfy every customer and stay ahead of the competition. After all, more features mean more value, right?

Actually, it’s often the opposite.

Too many features can overload your product, confuse users, degrade performance, slow down your teams, and drain your resources. The best product companies understand this and are obsessed with simplicity.

One of the best examples of simplicity is Apple, the most valuable company in the world. Remember when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone with just one button? That bold move showed how powerful it can be to focus on what's essential.
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This AI-generated episode is based on Your Guide to Feature Detox: Winning Through Simplifying from The Product Compass Newsletter. See my full post for more insights.
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