# Equations for Building Products with Sanity #Product *Last updated: July, 2021* I would be the first in the line to contend that as a product manager in the making, you ought to grow a healthy skepticism to "best practices". Context is king and most often, there is always an exception to everything. However, the following should save you some heartburn in the long run. - User Experience ≠ Wireframes - User Experience > Interaction Design > Look and feel - User = {customer, employee, business partner, developer,...} - Scrum ⊆ Agile ⊆ Iterative Methods - Agile ⇏ Speed - Detailed Definition of Ready ⇒ Consistent Definition of Done - Story Points ⇒ Estimation Metric - Story Points ⇏ Performance Metric - Burn Down ⇏ Progress - Low Defects ⇏ High Product Quality - Usability > UAT - Product Quality > Validation + Verification - Product Roadmap = {research, strategy, discovery, design, engineering, data, services, content, infrastructure, quality, legal, marketing, risk, regulatory, ...} - Talking to users ≠ Research