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Graham McNicollKilling a feature you spent months (or years) building is one of the hardest calls in prodtext_video2026-06-16941
Graham McNicollEvery experimentation leader eventually runs into the result nobody expected. A counteritext_videothought_leadership2026-06-11800
Graham McNicollMost engineering teams using feature flags treat them as circuit breakers. Something goes text_videothought_leadership2026-06-091110
Graham McNicollI spoke to an engineering manager last week whose team still tracks sprint progress in stotext_videothought_leadership2026-06-034131110
Graham McNicollAmazon just held a mandatory meeting after vibe-coded changes caused multiple major outagetext_videoindustry_commentary2026-05-265812370
Graham McNicollMost product teams I talk to struggle to analyze the true impact of any feature they ship,text_videothought_leadership2026-05-20900
Graham McNicollMost engineering teams I talk to are still shipping every feature directly to production. text_videothought_leadership2026-05-131,3392021
Graham McNicollMost product teams spec out the entire feature before they've shipped a single line of codtext_videothought_leadership2026-05-062,1471820
Graham McNicollA bug in our codebase accidentally set our paywall to zero. As a side effect, revenue jumptext_videothought_leadership2026-05-011,0501000
Graham McNicollAI coding tools are genuinely impressive. And this is literally the worst they will ever btext_videothought_leadership2026-04-295,8092210
Graham McNicollWe spent three years building our own experimentation platform at education.com. Then we ftext_videothought_leadership2026-04-231,6762502
Graham McNicollIf you use 3rd party vendor, you are betting your infrastructure on someone else's board mtext_videothought_leadership2026-04-221,1211430
Graham McNicollIt's entirely possible to run a test, see it win, ship the feature, and still damage your text_videothought_leadership2026-04-179511320
Graham McNicollStartup life is mostly reactive. You're in the task, in the Slack thread, in the meeting. text_videocompany_personal2026-04-159311930
Graham McNicollI see so many software teams launch massive features without actually defining what succestext_videothought_leadership2026-04-147401100
Graham McNicollEngineer's who ship products without measuring them are making a big mistake. If you arentext_videothought_leadership2026-04-086321500
Graham McNicollI've watched design teams spend months on an interface that looked great, and was based ontext_videothought_leadership2026-04-016712221
Graham McNicollIn many companies, the projects we work on are the ones backed by the person who speaks thtext_videothought_leadership2026-03-261,3972841
Graham McNicollThe most important transition for a product team is learning how to be ruthless with ideastext_videothought_leadership2026-03-241,3332840
Graham McNicollJudging a product team solely on their ability to ship is a bad metric that rewards activitext_videothought_leadership2026-03-189243510
Graham McNicollI know it sounds controversial, but I advocate for burning your backlog at the end of evertext_videothought_leadership2026-03-121,7955670
Graham McNicollIn baseball terms, the industry standard for any new product success is batting 200- and htext_videothought_leadership2026-03-101,4524910