AMA: Samsara Senior Director of Product Management, Ingo Wiegand on Product Development Process

The first question I would ask is whether PM and engineering have aligned upfront on a mutually agreed-upon definition of the problem to be solved and the definition of ...

Generally, I think about three fundamental dimensions in product development: time, scope, and resourcing. You will never be able to force all three to your liking, in m...

The right PM to Eng ratio depends on a couple of different factors, many of which can from my perspective be boiled down to 1) the overall stage and scale of the company...

I generally like to break product problems into smaller, independent pieces to help me more effectively prioritize and isolate critical ‘must do’ work One potential way ...

At a high-level, I usually like to think about the somewhat simplistic delineation that PMs decide ‘what’ to build, while engineers deliver the ‘how’. Ultimately, priori...

I’m a strong believer in product/feature teams owning their deliverables end to end, which includes not only product definition and development, but also testing and val...