Having seen the inside of both good and bad product organizations, culture beats process any day of the week. Get the core values right, hire smart people and e

Having seen the inside of both good and bad product organizations, culture beats process any day of the week. Get the core values right, hire smart people and everything will fall into place. A corollary is that cargo-culting well-developed processes generally means you’re copying from a company with a culture that couldn’t address those functions organically. So you may actually just be lifting an over-engineered process designed to address a cultural weakness at the original company.