Ayako FujitaChief Product Officer · Essays & perspective

Ayako Fujita / Chief Product Officer

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Perspectives from a life in leadership.

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Product strategy

  1. Product strategy2 min read

    A roadmap should explain the trade-off

    A feature list tells a team what has been requested, but not why one investment matters more than another.

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Discovery

  1. Discovery2 min read

    Discovery needs a decision at the end

    Customer interviews and experiments should answer a question that matters to an investment.

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Portfolio

  1. Portfolio2 min read

    Launch is the beginning of an adoption story

    Shipping a product moves the work into the customer's environment, where onboarding, expectations and existing habits shape its value.

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