AMA: Square Product Leader, Abhiroop Basu on Roadmap Planning
October 24 @ 10:00AM PST
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Square Product Leader, Abhiroop Basu on Roadmap Planning
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Abhiroop Basu
Square Product Manager • October 25
This is an interesting question, but it's rarely a decision an individual product manager makes. Even if you're the only PM in your company, there will be PMMs, business development, sales, not to mention your leadership team who are all part of setting the priority/direction for the company. The......Read More
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Abhiroop Basu
Square Product Manager • October 25
The simple answer is to prioritize the features that will bring your customers the most value and consequently drive the most revenue for your business/organization. Unfortunately, it's rarely that straightforward, particularly if you aren't working on customer facing features. Here are the four ......Read More
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Abhiroop Basu
Square Product Manager • October 25
Prioritizing is one of the hardest tasks for a PM. Balancing the needs of stakeholders, with customer needs, and business priorities. However, only your manager (and their manager and so forth) should have any "control" on your roadmap. Everyone else, should be able to provide In reality, you wil......Read More
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Abhiroop Basu
Square Product Manager • October 25
Depending on the team in question the level of detail and approach will differ on how you communicate your roadmap. Here are some of the key teams you'll partner with and approaches you can take to communicate your roadmap: * Core team: For your design, engineering, and data science partners yo......Read More
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Abhiroop Basu
Square Product Manager • October 25
One thing I've never had an issue on is coming up with features for a product. If you're ever bereft of ideas, simply go and speak to a customer and they'll provide a dozen ways your product can be improved. But it's important to structure the ideas so you don't get overwhelmed. Here's how you ca......Read More
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Abhiroop Basu
Square Product Manager • October 25
Some companies do a great job in providing a public-facing roadmap. At one company I worked at, there used to be a Trello board where customers could add features, upvote, and see what was coming up. It was completely transparent. On the other hand I've worked at companies where we didn't publicl......Read More
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