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    1. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

      7. Promotion season. It's been 8 months since the kickoff and promotions are happening. The PM is promoted to Sr PM, and one of the engineers to Staff for having identified and executed on a strategic business opportunity, and shipping it to production in such a short time.

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    2. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

      8. Iterating. The product rolls out in other countries, and initial growth looks good. The next 6 months the team keeps adding more features, and shipping these to smaller cohorts. There seems to be lots of churn after 2 months. But it's a bit too early to tell, to be fair.

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    3. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

      9. More funding. The PM strikes a deal with Popular Company Product to integrate their chat to their the main screen. User signups surge and the growth graph is a hockeystick. The (Sr) PM asks for more funding: another 20 engineers. Approved for 15. The team grows. More hiring!

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    4. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

      10. More promotions. The other founding senior engineer is also promoted to Staff, as well as other engineers. The EM is promoted to Sr EM for growing a team from zero to 20 engineers, and two managers in such a short time.

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    5. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

      11. Growth slowing. That two-month churn is surfacing, and it's bad. The hockestick is flattening. It's unclear why users are churning. Well, that's not entirely true: there's dozens of reasons, and each one is a major project to fix. Confusion with other products is also one.

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    6. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

      12. Founding team members leaving. The founding PM realizes a project slowing down won't help them get to Director. Best to leave when things are still growing. They internally transfer to head up three teams taking on a directly threatening competitor instead.

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    7. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

      13. More team members leaving. Growth is flat, and there is no clear fix for the problem. Three of the engineers and a manager follows the PM to the new teams. A few other engineers transfer to other teams building interesting things.

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    8. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

      14. A struggling team. Growth is turning negative. The team is not given additional headcount the next planning cycle. There are rumors of no backfills, unless the metrics improve. The EM and PM both transfer to another team as well. The new EM and PM are now both new hires.

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    9. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

      15. The speculation. The org all-hands no longer mentions the product. Internal transfers avoid the team. People are talking: why did the product fail? The area is strategic to the company. The start was promising. What went wrong? Was it the people? Execution? The competition?

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    10. Gergely Orosz‏ @GergelyOrosz Sep 26

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      16. The realization. A PM thinks they understand the cause. The market shifted. Positioning was poor. The area is still strategic. Could this be... the opportunity they've been looking for? They take a deep breath and decide it is. They know what to do:https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1442215732545216518 …

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      Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz
      When you ask "Why did Company build 7 of the same products that all failed?", it always starts with the current solution struggling. This is an opportunity. Not to fix - which doesn't get you promoted - but to start anew. An all too real story about Promotion Driven Development:
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      Pinboard‏ @Pinboard Sep 26
      Replying to @GergelyOrosz

      The thread loop here is a very tasteful touch!

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        1. Dr. Molitor von Math, PhD‏ @amolitor99 Sep 26
          Replying to @Pinboard @GergelyOrosz

          Exactly the same thread applies to US wars as soon as you realize that promotion in the US army is driven largely by quantity of combat experience.

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