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AMA: Momentive Vice President Of Product Management, Aleks Bass on Product Development Process

September 7 @ 10:00AM PST
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Momentive Vice President Of Product Management, Aleks Bass on Product Development Process
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What is your end-to-end product development process?
Aleks Bass
Aleks Bass
Typeform Vice President Product Management • September 7
Our product development lifecycle process looks very similar to a double diamond design process but with an adapted approach for our organization. While there are best practices for a product development processes, I've found that there is a decent amount of adaptation and adjustment that needs t......Read More
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When facing constrains from finance/budget, how do you balance product delivery/growth and lack of resource
Aleks Bass
Aleks Bass
Typeform Vice President Product Management • September 7
Ruthless prioritization. Many organizations are trying to do too many things given the capacity of their teams. I'd rather focus on fewer things that are likely to have a bigger impact than trying to accomplish a larger number of them less well and with less impact to the business and the custome......Read More
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We have a small product and eng team, and are too early to have QA. Do you recommend we have eng test their own features? Is this the job of the product? Also should we have QA as part of our sprint, or the subsequent sprint?
Aleks Bass
Aleks Bass
Typeform Vice President Product Management • September 7
I recommend triangulation as much as is possible. Without a QA function, engineering should be checking to make sure from a technical standpoint that what they have built works. Product and design should also be checking to make sure that the experience you have been cultivating is going to creat......Read More
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At what point do you talk about success metrics with your development team?
Aleks Bass
Aleks Bass
Typeform Vice President Product Management • September 6
Our team believes that success metrics have the highest likelihood of driving focus and execution quality when they are tied to our strategy and something we consistently track and explore. Our teams are well versed in our strategy and the related metrics we are trying to move. We, therefore, set......Read More
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Who is involved in assessing the problems you choose to tackle?
Aleks Bass
Aleks Bass
Typeform Vice President Product Management • September 7
There is an interesting tension here between looking at problem spaces from a variety of angles to make sure you have a sound and differentiated strategy that is worth pursuing and inciting decision paralysis by having too many individuals involved in the process. And the truth is, it depends on ......Read More
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