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What is your framework to prioritize product areas and features when you have limited engineering or product management resources as the head of the product area?

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  1. Adrianne Wang Martinson

    TikTok Head of Product, AI-powered Automated Services | Formerly Airbnb, Microsoft, Salesforce, Box • 4y

    Resource constraints are a very common challenge for any team and company that I’ve worked for. I tend to focus on business priorities and how the identified product area can make an impact on those priorities in my framework rather than letting resource constraints limit my thought process. Once everyone, including leadership, stakeholders andt the team, are all agreed on the business priorities, I will then look into several solutions and how these solutions can move the needle. Another import ...Read More

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  2. Ibrahim Bashir
    Ibrahim Bashir

    Amplitude Vice President, Product Management • 4y

    I try and start with a combined top-down / bottom-up exercise. Top-down: what are the top 1-3 business objectives that we can move the needle on with product work? Let's prioritize those. Bottom-up: what is the bare minimum keep-the-lights-on staffing level required to run our service / business? If there is any surplus from this exercise, you take on more of the backlog and can do more ambitious thing. If there is a deficit, time to deprioritize certain investment areas until the team is staffe ...Read More

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