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A programming technique that might be useful for product practitioners

Budi Tanrim
Oct 26, 2022
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Programmers usually write pseudocode before they write the actual code. They write in a plain language to sketch out their logic on how the algorithm might work. We can borrow this can concept and apply it in our work as product practitioners.

I find myself thinking about the business process a lot. For example, let’s say we need to hold a contest for YouTube every month, I will need to think quickly what are some of the big steps:

  1. Decide what the theme of the contest
    — Billy must decide what theme based on trending data
    — We lock the theme in the first week of the month

  2. Prepare the landing page
    — Should embed the submission form

  3. Announce it
    — We’ll prepare an entry point in the app
    — We’ll email active users

  4. Wait for the submission

  5. Curate the submission
    — Use machine learning model to eliminate bad submission

You get the idea. It’s useful to think in this way before I go into creating detailed flow or something more advanced.

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