# Product Strategy

> Product strategy and prioritization frameworks. Use when: - Defining product direction - Prioritizing what to build next - Making go/no-go decisions - Evaluating product opportunities

- Skill: `huangqianqian120/product-strategy` (Agent Skill)
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- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: huangqianqian120 (https://skillmd.com/u/huangqianqian120)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/huangqianqian120/product-strategy

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# Product Strategy

## Strategy Formula

**Product Strategy =** Delight customers **+** Hard to copy **+** Margin enhancing

Three questions:
1. **Delight**: Are we making customers happier in a meaningful way?
2. **Hard to copy**: Is there a sustainable competitive advantage?
3. **Margin**: Are we improving unit economics?

## Three Levels of Strategy

1. **Direction** — What product should we build?
2. **Prioritization** — What should we build next?
3. **Execution** — How do we build it?

**Key insight:** Most "execution problems" are actually strategy problems.

## Pre-mortem

Before starting any initiative, ask:

> "If this fails, what are the most likely reasons?"

This surfaces risks early and prevents sunk cost bias.

## Prioritization Frameworks

### ICE (Sean Ellis)
- **I**mpact
- **C**onfidence
- **E**ase
- Score each factor 1-10, multiply, rank

### RICE
- **R**each
- **I**mpact
- **C**onfidence
- **E**ffort

### Will/Won't/Won't List

Define explicitly:
- What you WILL do
- What you WON'T do (and why)
- What you WON'T do NOW (defer)

## Decision Principles

- **"If everyone agrees, you didn't add value."**
- **"Speed to value > Feature count."**
- **"Underdo your competition."**
- **"Don't use execution to fix strategy."**

## Time Allocation

- **20%** — Thinking, strategy, research
- **80%** — Execution

**Warning:** "Strategic laziness covered by tactical勤奋" = Bad

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## Sources

- Gibson Biddle (Netflix)
- Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Google)
- Lenny's Podcast