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Weisbrot: Two-week documentation sprints maintain focus better than three-month plans

Sean Weisbrot · The 90-Second Story That Gets Investors Curious Enough to Ask · Apr 6, 2021 · at 35:48

Sean Weisbrot explains how shifting from multi-month product roadmaps to two-week agile documentation cycles improved team alignment and founder focus.

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“Where I used to prepare Three months worth of documentation and issues and all that. Now I'm trying to do it like two weeks at a time. So, okay, I know the team's going to be working on this in the next two weeks. Let me create all of it at once, disseminate it one time and let them do it. And when they're getting close to finishing, let me get the next set. And so this allows me to focus more on the here and now and the what's right in front of us, but then maintain this larger vision For them to see.”

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