Mike Arcuri

AMA: Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform, Mike Arcuri on Product Roadmap & Prioritization

May 9 @ 10:00AM PT
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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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Mike Arcuri
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups2y
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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