GERM rank

Step 0️⃣ - Copy this doc

Step 1️⃣ - Invite the right people

Step 2️⃣ - GERM pillars

Step 3️⃣ - Success metrics

Step 4️⃣ - GEM ranking

Step 5️⃣ - Pillar funding

Step 6️⃣ - Communicate

Step 7️⃣ - Strategic context

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This document is part of the

Product Blocks newsletter⁠

series.

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Remember the days when you were a child and you were building things with lego?

You used plastic blocks that had different shapes and colors to make various creations like buildings, vehicles, and animals. The same set of plastic blocks let you build different things. The only thing that was stopping you was your imagination.

Building things with lego is not that far from building teams and companies. Think of the ways of working of each team and company as a set of lego. Each plastic block represents a specific technique, framework, and principles used.

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There is a big difference in how best and rest work⁠

. While each company is different, the building blocks used by the best product companies (think Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, and many more) are shockingly similar. This is where I write about the blocks they use - their techniques, practices, frameworks, principles, and views. No fancy talk, just step-by-step instructions on how to apply those yourself.

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My name is

Piotr Kacała⁠

, I'm a CTO and a product leader, and that's the future I want to help build. That's why I created this newsletter.

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Product Blocks is a newsletter on building blocks for creating great product teams and successful tech companies step-by-step.

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💌 Content

I post practical guides for product, design, and engineering people every two weeks.

Example subjects and guides include:

🎯 leadership and ☀️ culture

company mission workshop recipe and examples

company values deck template

vision workshop recipe and examples

strategy workshop recipe and examples

north star metrics

company KPI trees

effective OKR setup and examples

🥡 product management and 🎨 product design

outcome-oriented roadmap templates

product prioritization techniques

PRD templates

⚙️ engineering

product goals in product (engineering) teams

technical radar in your company

tech debt handling strategy

aligning tech teams by using RFC and ADRs

a road to continuous delivery

👥 people, management, and 🕸 organizational design

splitting teams strategies

KPIs for product and engineering

hiring and onboarding employees' checklists

measuring team health & performance

roles and team skill matrix (product teams, leadership)

organization structure recommendations

product trio (Product Manager, Product Designer, Tech Lead) setup

guilds and matrix structure

... and many more!

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