AMA: Doppler Principal Product Manager, James Heimbuck on Product Roadmap & Prioritization
September 10 @ 10:00AM PT
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ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 1y
Great question! It's easy to fall into "i'm sure a user would want to ABC and then they would XYZ . . " and expand the scope of your first iteration. The process I have f...
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How do you do customer discovery, and what is the hardest thing for you about it?
How do you go about figuring out what the most impactful problems are for you to solve for your customers? How do you validate that they are really problems and how many users have those problems?
ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 1y
Talk to customers, talk to customers and talk to customers!! Any time you have a chance to talk to a customer or a potential customer take it! I find that mixing qualita...
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ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 1y
What is shared on the roadmap is all about who the audience is you are talking or preparing it for review and what incentives they have. Some things I have found success ...
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What are the best practices for introducing roadmapping as a product management practice in a transforming organization that is new to product practices and mindset, and how can you ensure that different teams stay consistent with the formats or frameworks used, while still allowing for flexibility and innovation?
In context of an organization undergoing business transformation, managing exiting products and product portfolios with a product approach rather than project based approach.
ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 1y
It sounds like the question may be more about how do we empower our teams to work on outcomes than product roadmaps, a spicy one for sure!I would not worry about each tea...
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ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 1y
Wow that is a great question and a tough spot to be in for sure! I would approach this by starting with the value prop of your product and asking yourself some questions...
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ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 1y
I am a BIG proponent of having a version of the roadmap that can be shared externally! There are some tactical things you may need to do to ensure you can share and to ...
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