Excerpt from Lean Product Management - Mangalam Nandakumar

• "The engineering that went into the honeycomb contributes to a specific way of life that is suited to the bees. It is important to realize that the first bees didn't initially build wax hexagonal tubes. They iterated over many generations and responded to feedback from nature (which is often harsh and can result in extinction). Bees have pivoted to this model and it seems to have worked rather well for them."
•  "Engineering in isolation adds no business value".
• "Business functions acting in isolation without the context of business outcomes or creating value to the customer are not sustainable".
• What works for bees doesn't / may not work for ants.
• On why delivering value is important--
• "By carrying over software delivery frameworks of meeting timelines, budgets, and customer satisfaction, we are in a way restricting ourselves to looking at outputs instead of outcomes."
• "Product management shouldn't be about measuring effort or productivity; it isn't about measuring output"
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