AMA: Uber Director of Product, Sirisha Machiraju on Product Roadmap & Prioritization
December 3 @ 10:00AM PT
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How do you do customer discovery, and what is the hardest thing for you about it?
How do you go about figuring out what the most impactful problems are for you to solve for your customers? How do you validate that they are really problems and how many users have those problems?
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Customer discovery should never be treated as a 1-time planning activity. It should be an ongoing process to define a running backlog of opportunities. Customer discover...
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First of all, congratulations on your new role! I am sure there will be no dearth of problems to solve here:) But if there is one advice I can share -that would be to mak...
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Move Items on Roadmap: What are your suggestions for product leads when they need to efficiently explain that an item on the roadmap needs to move because some other item has become more important?
We are required to write long docs and spend hours on creating decks for leadership which is not the best use of time
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Unfortunately, reprioritization of a roadmap is not a fun exercise and can many times lead to frustration with long discussions and alignment meetings. Repriortization i...
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This would entirely depend on the stage of your product & the space you operate in.For example, if you are working on early stage 0->1 product, may be a monthly ro...
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Is your leadership aware of this pivot? If not, I would recommend starting there. Are there internal stakeholders who need to be educated about this pivot as well. If so,...
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How, when & the level of detail of roadmaps delivery will depend on the audience. In general, for any team, understand their role in your roadmap execution lifecycle ...
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