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The Simple Sabotage Field Manual: Rewritten for Corporate Product Life
Tuesday, 3 February, 2026
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-simple-sabotage-field-manual-rewritten-for-corporate-product-life. A satirical rewrite of the WWII Simple Sabotage Field Manual for modern product teams, showing how meetings, alignment, metrics, and best practices ship nothing Check more stories related to product-management at: https://hackernoon.com/c/product-management. You can also check exclusive content about #product-management, #software-development, #engineering-culture, #workplace-culture, #leadership, #simple-sabotage-field-manual, #product-culture, #product-manager-struggles, and more. This story was written by: @everydaytechbit. Learn more about this writer by checking @everydaytechbit's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. In 1944, the OSS published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual to show how small, “reasonable” actions could quietly slow hostile organizations. Modern product teams don’t need the manual — we’ve reinvented it through best practices. Meetings, alignment, metrics, edge cases, Jira hygiene, and last-minute ML pivots often combine into a system that looks professional but resists shipping. No one is sabotaging anything on purpose. The role is rotational — and sometimes, it’s you.
