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Escaping the Build Trap

Disciplines:
strategy
product management
outcomes
perri

Summary

Melissa Perri's 2018 argument that companies fall into the 'build trap' (equating outputs with outcomes, shipping features without measuring their impact) and how to escape it through outcome-driven product management.

Core Contribution

Names and diagnoses the 'build trap' — Perri's framework for distinguishing feature factories (build trap) from outcome-oriented product organizations is the clearest account of why so many product teams fail to create value despite constant delivery.

Historical Influences

Melissa Perri

Intellectual Lineage

Melissa Perri O'Reilly

Allied Works

Inspired Continuous Discovery Habits

Contemporaries & Peers

Inspired The Lean Startup

Minds Influenced

Product management practice Lenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

Escaping the Build Trap Build trapOutcome-driven product management

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