How do you balance “shipping on time” with ensuring you have the right market insights to prioritize the roadmap correctly? We do 2 week sprints.
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BILL Director Product Management • 6mo
This is a classic product tension, building fast and building the right things. The way I balance shipping on time with market insight is by separating strategic prioriti...
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Samsara Vice President of Product Management - Safety • 4y
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...
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Shopify Senior Product Lead | Formerly Salesforce, Google, Nest, Cisco Systems • 3y
“Agile Research” This is a term I coined to describe the act of always conducting user interviews. The problem with well-designed research projects is that they take too ...
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Ideally you have the right market insights before you start building. However, if you have open questions, I encourage you to break down the project into smaller mileston...
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Asana Former Head of Product Operations | Formerly Adobe • 2y
Balancing timely delivery with market insights isn't about conflicting goals; it's about ensuring we ship the most impactful solutions. Here are some best practices to ac...
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Superhuman Head of Product, Enterprise • 5mo
The key question to answer here is "What are you trying to learn?" The answer to this needs to crisp for you and the team. Ideally it wouldn't be a collection of multiple...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 3y
Job number one is ensuring you have the right market insights to prioritize the roadmap correctly. Engineering managers and scrum masters can pick up the slack and keep t...
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Atlassian Head of Product, DevOps • 10mo
Shipping on time only matters if what we’re delivering adds value or helps us learn. We think of it less as “on time” and more as “often and on purpose.”We don’t need per...
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Eventbrite Senior Director of Product • 2y
Balancing "shipping on time" with ensuring you have the right market insights to prioritize the roadmap correctly is a common challenge in product development. Striking t...
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Co-author Product Roadmaps Relaunched | Formerly Openly, MachineMetrics, ConstantContact, Vempathy, Fresh Tilled Soil • 2y
Two week iterations are very common and can work effectively if you've broken the work down in such a way that you're delivering customer value within each sprint. The qu...
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