AMA: Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management, Aaron Bloom on Managing Mature Products
January 29 @ 10:00AM PT
View AMA Answers
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 4mo
A product can be considered mature when it reaches a point of stability and equilibrium: There’s a strong base of long term, loyal customers, and growth becomes relativel...
412 Views
1 request
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 4mo
Tech debt should be considered at every stage of a product’s lifecycle, but it becomes materially more important as a product matures. Mature products have accumulated ye...
398 Views
1 request
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 4mo
Optimizing a mature product differs from a nascent one in a few common ways:Small tweaks can drive outsized benefits or large scale damage.Years of iteration create far m...
388 Views
1 request
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 4mo
Outdated tech isn’t automatically bad since it has carried your product to maturity, but unmanaged risk is an amplified exposure.Understand whether the issue is end of li...
405 Views
1 request
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 4mo
When defining a new feature or change, also define what your anticipated impact will be to the customer and OKRs. This should be part of your prioritization framework in ...
384 Views
1 request
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 4mo
Teams that have worked on a product for years bring deep context, but they can also become strongly entrenched in existing beliefs and decisions.Start with empathy. Give ...
375 Views
1 request