AMA: Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform, Mike Arcuri on Product Roadmap & Prioritization
May 9 @ 10:00AM PT
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
I like to get as much input as is reasonable both internally and externally. Internal examples of stakeholder input: partnerships, sales, marketing, product support, ope...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
We all inherently understand that the farther out you plan, the greater the uncertainty. This was also one of the key themes in the Agile development methodology. But I d...
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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.
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
There’s already a planning process in your company, it's just likely a poorly defined/understood one with a lot of downsides. You might start by doing a learning/listenin...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
I like to start with the product stage, context, and strategy. From these, and your customer data you should be able to determine your prioritiesWith an early stage, pre-...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
Here's a rough e2e prioritization process:Set context with the team and your stakeholders on the overall business, product stage and strategy, key problems, behavioral da...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
I've worked with marketers who are great at understanding customer and business opportunities. I regularly work with these teams in combination with data science and user...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
Executives that can't provide focus for your team can be a common situation when there's early stage market uncertainty and pressure to do customer discovery and find PMF...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
In terms of how to communicate with your internal organization, partner teams, and stakeholders during a pivot, I'd make these internal partners and stakeholders a partic...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
In executive conversations about roadmaps, I nearly always express them team's (and my own POV) up front. I also connect the dots from business principles/priorities to t...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
I answered this partly in the earlier question “We’re pivoting our product, and it’s difficult to plan the roadmap too far out. How do we reset expectations on what produ...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
One piece of advice: Understand your product, organization, and company and what each of these needs to succeed. Then do that thing (at your appropriate job scope: produc...
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