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Strategic CX Doctrine (Very Important)
Customers don't care about your roadmap speed. They suffer from your bad experiences.
The strategic CX doctrine: quality over speed, value over velocity. Customers never see your roadmap; they only live with what ships. A set of advisory rules flags when metrics, journey maps, tests, or KPIs are quietly working against the customer.
Customers do not care how fast your roadmap moves. They suffer from bad products, services, and experiences. The doctrine that follows is blunt: quality over speed, value over velocity.
- Metrics optimizing behavior over value: flag customer-periphery
- Journey maps without research: invalidate strategic decisions
- Usability tests that guide users: invalidate findings
- KPIs that create friction: re-evaluate the KPIs
- A/B wins ignoring downstream impact: require long-term measurement
Treat these as tripwires, not aspirations. Each one describes a failure mode that looks like progress from the inside — a rising metric, a finished map, a passed test — while the customer's actual experience gets worse.
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