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How to advance your Product Market Fit KPI (Oct 21)

Finding the gaps in your product that will unlock the next round of growth.

Developer Relations as Developer Success (Oct 19)

Outreach, marketing, and developer evangelism are a part of Developer Relations. But the companies that are most successful with developers spend most of their time on something else.

Developer Experience Principle 6: Easy to Maintain (Oct 17)

Keeping your product Easy to Maintain will improve the lives of your team and your customers. It will help keep your docs up to date. Your SDKs and APIs will be released in sync. Your tooling and overall experience will shine.

Developer Experience Principle 5: Easy to Trust (Oct 9)

A developer building part of their business on your product needs to believe that you're going to do the right thing for them and their customers.

Developer Experience Principle 4: Easy to Get Help (Oct 8)

The faster you can unblock a stuck developer, the better their experience will be.

Developer Experience Principle 3: Easy to Build (Oct 5)

A product makes it Easy to Build by focusing on productivity for developers building real-world applications.

How to understand your product and your market (Sep 30)

A customer development question you can ask to find out who your product is best for and why they'll love it.

Developer Experience Principle 2: Easy to Use (Sep 28)

Making it Easy to Use means letting the developer do everything without involving you.

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What I'm Reading

• Creating a thriving API ecosystem starting with the API experience
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• Free Your Product Roadmap and Ditch the Timeline - Mind the Product
• A Pipeline Made of Airbags
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim
• Anna Shipman : JFDI
• Pickled Punk by Chris Minnick
• Four steps to identifying your new role
• Engineering Management: An Interview with Rich Archbold
• Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
• 22 Principles for Great Product Managers
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
• All the Devils (Livia Lone #3) by Barry Eisler
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
• Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella
• The CEO of Automattic on Holding “Auditions” to Build a Strong Team
• Unlocking value with durable teams
• Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It by April Dunford
• To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence Levy