When facing constrains from finance/budget, how do you balance product delivery/growth and lack of resource
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Samsara Vice President of Product Management - Safety • 4y
I generally like to break product problems into smaller, independent pieces to help me more effectively prioritize and isolate critical ‘must do’ work One potential way ...
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Level AI VP of Product • 2y
Prioritization is a key PM competency. When there are constraints you need to deal with, “ruthless prioritization” becomes even more important. Some guiding principles to...
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Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 10mo
The key levers building any product are resources, time (when the initiative needs to be delivered), and scope. If there are budget constraints driving a limitation on re...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 3y
The biggest mistake companies make is treating product management a junior, technical function. A good PM is a strategic thinker who is market oriented. A big part in mak...
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Co-author Product Roadmaps Relaunched | Formerly Openly, MachineMetrics, ConstantContact, Vempathy, Fresh Tilled Soil • 2y
I don't know of any company that doesn't have this constraint in some manner!Ultimately you have to ask a very very critical question: What's important?Here's a video of ...
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Eventbrite Senior Director of Product • 2y
This is what I call "healthy tension" and should exist within any responsible organization. The reality is, as a product management organization, we are always operating ...
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Typeform Chief Product Officer • 3y
Ruthless prioritization. Many organizations are trying to do too many things given the capacity of their teams. I'd rather focus on fewer things that are likely to have a...
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Senior Director of Product | Strategic Planning, Mentoring | Formerly The Knot Worldwide, Trello (Atlassian) • 5mo
That is a tough one. No one likes being asked to do more with less. But, constraints do make things clear and can be freeing. As a product owner, you will always need to ...
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Atlassian Head of Product, DevOps • 10mo
Resource constraints are a reality. You will almost always want more time, more people, more budget. But more doesn’t necessarily mean better outcomes. Sometimes it leads...
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HubSpot Group Product Manager, CRM Platform • 2y
When you lack resourcing whether it's engineering, design, or even product, it's critical to practice ruthless prioritization and managing expectations. Realistically the...
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