Untrapping Product Teams

Untrapping Product Teams

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Untrapping Product Teams
Adding by subtracting

Adding by subtracting

Removing the unnecessary may be your low-hanging fruit for productivity

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David Pereira
Jan 04, 2023
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How often do you hear one of the following?

  • What are we missing?

  • How could we change our process to prevent errors?

  • What could we add to our product?

I hear too many people talking about adding something and barely hear somebody suggesting removing something.

More often than you imagine, subtraction is the best addition.

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Here are some questions that helped me increase productivity:

  • What do we do that creates little or no value? What would happen if we stopped doing that?

  • What could we stop doing today that nobody would miss?

  • Which features could we remove that’d go unnoticed?

Adding by subtracting is one of the best ways to increase productivity.

Let me share the ten subtractions that can boost your productivity from today.

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