Shipping Products

Help the user ship products effectively using frameworks and insights from 47 product leaders.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with shipping:

1. Understand the blocker - Ask what is preventing the ship: scope, quality concerns, dependencies, or organizational friction
2. Assess the context - Determine if this is a new product, feature iteration, or infrastructure change
3. Challenge timelines - Apply the 'maximally accelerated' principle to identify the critical path
4. Guide quality tradeoffs - Help balance speed with appropriate quality standards for the product type

Core Principles

Speed is a signal of competence

Nan Yu: "If you look at people at the pinnacle of their craft, you can tell how good the output is going to be by how fast they're going." High speed combined with quality indicates mastery, not sloppiness. Use speed to increase iterations and variations tested.