Product Management playbook/Module 7 · Engineering

Day 64 / 100 · Engineering · Architecture choices PMs should care about

Some tech decisions are product decisions.

You don't need to design the system. You do need to spot the choices that will shape what the product can do for years.

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The data model

It decides what you can report on and personalise later.

Where data lives

Location affects compliance, cost and trust.

Integrations

What connects easily now, and what never will.

One-way doors

Choices that are costly or impossible to undo.

Source: Amazon ↗

Ask about the one-way doors.