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Anti Patterns

An annotated collection of 2 books on anti patterns, spanning 2011 to 2018. Featuring works by Richard P. Rumelt, Melissa Perri — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard P. Rumelt, 2011 · Crown Business

Rumelt's argument is cutting: most of what gets called "strategy" in organisations is not strategy at all — it is goals, or slogans, or lists of initiatives. Real strategy has a kernel: a diagnosis of the situation, a gu…

Perri's book names a condition that most product organisations fall into without noticing: the build trap, where shipping features becomes the measure of progress and the connection between those features and actual outc…