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AMA: Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform, Mike Arcuri on Product Roadmap & Prioritization
April 25 @ 10:00AM PST
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform, Mike Arcuri on Product Roadmap & Prioritization
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
Here's a rough e2e prioritization process: 1. Set context with the team and your stakeholders on the overall business, product stage and strategy, key problems, behavioral data, and user research. 2. Establish roadmap themes based on these key problems, needs, and opportuniti......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
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 the investment themes for the roadmap to the projects and milestones in the roadmap. By doing it in this way (i.e. "here's our ......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
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 participating part of the pivot planning process. Once you're through that process and back to executing, then you can communicate ti......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
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 research teams to form an "understand roadmap" to answer the open questions that would most help our product progress (about o......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
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. Top company leadership feels an intense time pressure (I've heard it described as a holding both a compass and a stopwatch), ......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
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 product communicates?” TLDR is “it really depends on your company values/priorities and your product and community.” * There are ......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
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: product/org/company). A bit more detail: * Consider doing a listening tour of your peers and reports in your first 30 ......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
1. I like to start with the product stage, context, and strategy. From these, and your customer data you should be able to determine your priorities * With an early stage, pre-PMF product, you may be prioritizing learning about your customer needs and how well your product is ......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
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 don’t believe I’ve ever heard someone explain the implications of this in a practical way for product managers. Some businesses......Read More
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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.
Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
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/listening tour, identifying and aligning team members on the current pain points with planning/lack of planning. Then you can explai......Read More
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform • April 26
I like to get as much input as is reasonable both internally and externally. * Internal examples of stakeholder input: partnerships, sales, marketing, product support, operations, finance, data science, design, execs… * External sources of roadmap input: press reactions & professional pro......Read More
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