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Software Behaviorby Joost van der Zwan
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Framework · Sequence · from Chapter 9

Leverage Lens

A strategic filter for product bets: clarity, speed, confidence, quality, coordination, decision-making. A bet that improves none of these is noise.
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The framework

Fig. · Leverage Lens
  1. Clarity: Does this make the work easier to understand or decide?
  2. Speed: Does this remove meaningful delay without erasing judgment?
  3. Confidence: Does this help people trust what they are doing next?
  4. Quality: Does this raise the standard of the outcome, not just the pace?
  5. Coordination: Does this make handoffs, roles, or dependencies cleaner?
  6. Decision-making: Does this improve the choices people can make with the product?
  1. 01

    Clarity

    Does this make the work easier to understand or decide?

  2. 02

    Speed

    Does this remove meaningful delay without erasing judgment?

  3. 03

    Confidence

    Does this help people trust what they are doing next?

  4. 04

    Quality

    Does this raise the standard of the outcome, not just the pace?

  5. 05

    Coordination

    Does this make handoffs, roles, or dependencies cleaner?

  6. 06

    Decision-making

    Does this improve the choices people can make with the product?

4 · Do

How to use it · Leverage lens

For each roadmap idea, name which leverage points it improves, which it erodes, and the cost of saying yes. The output is a roadmap leverage ranking.

5 · Save

The Product Architect · Leverage Lens

Framework · Sequence