Product Management
Product management is an iterative elimination tournament, with each round consisting of problem discovery, problem selection, and solution validation. Problem discovery is uncovering possible problems to work on, problem selection is filtering those problems down to a viable subset, and solution validation is ensuring that your approach to solving those problems works as cheaply as possible. (Larson 2019, 3.2)
What are the composable blocks you could start building today that would compound into major product or technical leverage over time? I think of this category of work as finding ways to get the benefit at least twice. (Larson 2019, 3.2.1)
Larson, Will. 2019. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Stripe Press.