AMA: Splunk Sr. Director, Head of AIOps and IT Ops Products, Kara Gillis on Product Roadmap & Prioritization

I typically advocate for using full-time engineering talent on the most innovative features, hardest problems to solve and outsource to third party services for things th...

I think you say exactly that! "We're pivoting our product. There are a lot of unknowns. It's hard to plan our roadmap too far out. We're resetting expectations on how mu...

Prioritization is more art than science. My goal is to actively listen to all stakeholders and help communicate how I make tradeoffs and how that impacts timeline to deli...

Executive alignment on your roadmap is pretty key to getting funding and resources to deliver on your roadmap. Your executive team probably cares about customer success,...

In a perfect world, you want at least 80% of your roadmap to be applicable to both! But, we don't live in a perfect world, do we? Some startups focus on a small number ...

I am a huge fan of public roadmaps! But, I think this is depends on: Organizational cultural preference Mission of the company / product (are you building a product to...

I tailor the product roadmap to the person / group with whom I'm communicating. I often will use Google Slides for a customer or sales facing presentation. With engineeri...

I think it depends on what you mean by "building the roadmap." If you meant "how does product marketing help communicate the roadmap to sales and customers?" - this is a...