What is your strategy for how much engineering resources you dedicate to custom work for large enterprise accounts vs core roadmap?
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IBM Product Management • 1y
This is a great question! In the 5 B2B enterprise SaaS organizations I have worked practiced no custom development! Although we may build specific features for target cus...
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Box Director of Product Management • 3y
In general, I am not a proponent of building custom solutions for a single customer. However, if there’s a large customer who wants something that will serve the broader...
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strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management • 1y
The eternal tug-of-war that every PM, especially Enterprise PM, runs into. Balancing custom asks with long-term roadmap work is hard, especially when big deals or renewal...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 3y
I usually ask myself a few questions when we are being asked to commit resources to 'tasks outside of the strategic product roadmap'. The primary aim is to not deviate f...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 4y
This is a big part of why I love working in the mid-market - we flat out refuse one off features for enterprise accounts. My roadmap is so much more scalable and predicta...
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