AMA: Barracuda VP, Product Management, Mike Flouton on Product Development Process
October 4 @ 10:00AM PST
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Barracuda VP, Product Management, Mike Flouton on Product Development Process
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Mike Flouton
GitLab VP, Product • October 5
This is a classic conundrum. The good news is it’s a lot less costly when it happens in today’s agile world than it was when I started my PM career in the days of 18 month waterfall development cycles. First, apply your PM skills and dig in and explore the problem and its root causes. Is this ......Read More
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Mike Flouton
GitLab VP, Product • October 5
Job number one is ensuring you have the right market insights to prioritize the roadmap correctly. Engineering managers and scrum masters can pick up the slack and keep the trains running on time when you’re falling behind on customer research. Never shortchange market insights!
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Mike Flouton
GitLab VP, Product • October 5
The biggest mistake companies make is treating product management a junior, technical function. A good PM is a strategic thinker who is market oriented. A big part in making that transition to the strategic is learning to speak in terms of business outcomes, and learning how to sell internally. ......Read More
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Mike Flouton
GitLab VP, Product • October 5
I’m a huge believer in transparency. Make your roadmap and decision process transparent. We use a weighted scoring algorithm where roadmap items (and ultimately supporting tickets) roll up into a prioritization rubrik. That prioritization methodology should be available to anyone in your company,......Read More
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Mike Flouton
GitLab VP, Product • October 5
Metrics work best when they are continuously embedded into the process. We use OKRs, and cascade them down from top level corporate goals into product line metrics, product team metrics and sprint metrics. Use them in a regular cadence to assess progress towards high level strategic objectives. W......Read More
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Mike Flouton
GitLab VP, Product • October 5
Product management is accountable and responsible for assessing which problems to tackle. But I strongly believe it works best when it’s a process where everyone can provide input, there’s transparency on how decisions are being made (see question on feature planning), and where decisions are mad......Read More
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