Rich Mironov on Product

Mea Culpa

The author retires his "magic bullet" advice—allocating a tiny, two‑week engineering slot each quarter for a sales‑driven request—after a product leader reported repeated failures. Real‑world data shows demand can be 20‑50 times the engineering capacity, making such shortcuts unrealistic. The piece highlights that creating a special queue steals from core work and that optimistic effort estimates often miss the mark. Success, the author notes, stems from deep trust and joint quarterly planning between sales, product, and engineering, not ad‑hoc shortcuts.