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What role does your engineering team have in prioritizing the roadmap for a product targeting developers?

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Developer Product Management
  1. Deepak Mukunthu
    Deepak Mukunthu

    Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform • 3mo

    A huge one, especially for developer products.

    Engineers bring:

    • Reality on feasibility and complexity

    • Strong opinions on design and usability (often valid)

    • Insight into long-term maintainability

    The best setups are collaborative:

    • PM brings user problems + priorities

    • Engineering brings how + constraints

    • Together, you shape what actually gets built

    If PMs ignore engineering input, the product suffers. If engineering drives everything without user validation, it also suffers.

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  2. Melissa Ushakov
    Melissa Ushakov

    GitLab Group Manager, Product Management • 3y

    Developers on the team will generally have a sense of the market since the products we build target them as a persona, especially if you're dogfooding your product. It's important to validate problems and solutions with customers to ensure that we're building a product that aligns with market needs, not just our own. I go into how to do that in another one of my answers.  Product Managers on the team will build a complete picture of product priorities by talking to a diverse set of end users and ...Read More

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  3. Julian Dunn
    Julian Dunn

    Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 2y

    Quite a lot. But one has to be cautious in this and have PM exercise oversight, because not all developers are alike. Your developers may not accurately represent developers at your target customer. One can easily fall into the trap of assuming that the same pain points that your team experiences while using your product will be the same ones that customers prioritize. (By the way, it is very easy for PM to fall into the same trap.) There is one universal truth, though, and it is that developers ...Read More

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  4. Orit Golowinski
    Orit Golowinski

    JetBrains Head of Product | Formerly GitLab, Jit.io, Cellebrite, Anima • 1y

    The developers have a seat at the table when discussing potential features and aspects being considered for the roadmap. It is the role of the product manager to listen to the diverse opinions from various stakeholders, including the developers, and then decide on the priority and roadmap of what will be delivered and when. Developers are always welcome to voice their opinions and explain why they are passionate about specific features. However, the product manager needs to look at the big pictu ...Read More

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