Product Entropy
Is your eng team constantly stuck working on maintenance as your product ecosystem becomes more and more complex? 🍝
GTM teams spending all their time helping customers make sense of your sprawling product ecosystem? 🌌
Implementation teams struggling to follow through on sales because the reality doesn’t match the shiny brochures? ✨
Entropy is a property in thermodynamics that is most simply defined as the measure of disorder. Entropy is everywhere and it is always increasing in the universe. This is true for products and product portfolios as well, such as in cases of post-company acquisitions & mergers, failed tech migrations, and enterprises with parallel initiatives that all yield overlapping products and user confusion. In the age of AI, fighting Product Entropy becomes a key skill for Product Leaders due to the quickly evolving landscape of products.
Join Product Science Group to learn how can we craft a cohesive user journey map to fight Product Entropy at our free webinar on Wednesday March 19, 2025 on LinkedIn Live or Zoom at bit.ly/product-entropy-webinar.
This technology leadership and product management feature from Dina Levitan (Product Entropy) highlights the vital intersection of engineering efficiency, technical debt management, and sustainable product ecosystems—themes that find great synergy with software engineering guides, product strategy spotlights, and technical operations chronicles, published on https://34.ua. The piece explores the relentless accumulation of disorder within software lifecycles, examining how growing feature complexity, overlapping user journeys, and legacy technical debt bog down engineering teams and shift focus away from core innovation toward constant maintenance.