What is your end to end process for prioritizing features on your roadmap?
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
Here's a rough e2e prioritization process:Set context with the team and your stakeholders on the overall business, product stage and strategy, key problems, behavioral da...
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Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon • 2y
Generally the process I follow to prioritize features is:Aggregating feedback: from customers, users, and stakeholders through various avenuesReview User metrics to help ...
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Square Product Lead, Payments • 2y
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. Unfo...
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Airbase VP Product | Formerly Skype, Microsoft, Blink and Pipedrive • 4y
I wrote this post that covers a high level framework I use, aka Value stacking: https://medium.com/@TheUpstartGuy/value-stacking-multiplying-product-growth-88230ee4cfc2I...
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Buffer Staff Product Manager | Formerly Wayfair, Abstract, CustomMade, Sonicbids • 3y
I could give a really detailed answer about my process, but I don't really have one. I've found that my "prioritization process" is actually pretty simple and is about at...
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Typeform Chief Product Officer • 3y
Prioritization is the most important role of the product management function, and there seems to be a general sense that there is one major moment of prioritization that ...
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BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X • 1y
Here are the steps I take for end to end feature prioritization - Talk to various stakeholders (sync and async) and collect a list of features from them with the followin...
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Carta Sr. Director of Product Management | Formerly Salesforce, MuleSoft, Apple • 2y
At Carta, our end-to-end process for prioritizing features is rooted in strategic alignment, user-centricity, collaboration, and data-driven decision-making. For simplici...
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Notable Head of Product • 2y
The short answer here is Mission -> Vision -> Strategy -> Goals -> Projects/Features. Focus on things that way round and it will be clear what features to pri...
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