LNO (Leverage, Neutral, Overhead) Framework for Product Managers
https://www.aakashg.com/2022/02/01/lno-framework-for-product-managers/
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Join us as we explore the LNO Framework Effectiveness Framework, which allows PMs to classify and act on tasks as Leverage, Neutral, or Overhead. Leverage tasks should focus on vision and strategy, while Neutral tasks are those that are not particularly high leverage. Overhead tasks are project management, coordination activities, and packaging up how work is presented. To avoid getting caught up in overhead tasks, PMs should focus on what they are best at and prioritize higher leverage tasks.
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- So, the types of work that PMs should prioritize in the leverage category is primarily vision and strategy. Scoping work is lower leverage, and executional details of the backlog is the lowest leverage.
- In the context of your skills, the way to think about leverage is to focus on what you are best at. If your core “package” as a PM is more of The People Manager, then it may make sense to spike slightly more on stakeholder management, team leadership, and managing up. By contrast, product Innovators tend not to focus on these areas. They are bett...
- The types of activities that are most easily put in the bucket of overhead are project management. These are coordination activities, taking notes, making sure people do what they said they would on time. As Marty Cagan recently shared, this is the way to avoid 60 hour work weeks. In addition to project management, anything related to packaging u...
- Join us as we explore: Applying leverage to tasks in practice (L) Identifying neutral tasks (N) And how to slowly eliminate overhead (O)
- The LNO Framework Effectiveness Framework, at its core, allows PMs to: 1) classify and 2) appropriately act on the tasks that hit the to-do list either as Leverage, Neutral, or Overhead. As Shreyas visualized:
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