//pragmatic leaders

Forum

Bring a real product decision: the context, the options you considered, your current view, and the part you want challenged.

Bring: a decision you own, the trade-off, and the feedback you need.

Skip: generic opinions, promotion, homework, or a request for someone else to solve the whole problem.

Questions

Recent decisions open for discussion. Finished examples live in Library cases. See common framing errors.

  1. your top engineer wants to leave — you found out via slack

    // what would you do here?

  2. vp changed the OKR mid-quarter and your team is demoralized

    // what would you do here?

  3. the data says ship — your gut says no

    // what would you do here?

  4. stakeholder approved the spec — now wants to reopen everything in week 6

    // what would you do here?

  5. user research says one thing — your biggest customer says another

    // what would you do here?

  6. your launch is in three days — qa found a bug in a non-critical path

    // what would you do here?

  7. you inherited a roadmap you disagree with — leadership expects you to execute

    // what would you do here?

  8. design and eng are deadlocked — you need to ship in two weeks

    // what would you do here?

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