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BILL Director Product Management • Apr 14
Yes, PMF can absolutely be the goal early on. And in our experience, forcing a precise north star metric before you have real usage data often leads to optimizing for the...
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Head of Product, VP • 3y
When setting up any new line of business, revenue projection is an important step to understand the expected outcomes and viability of the business. For new a new product...
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Carta VP Product, Upmarket & Private Equity • 2y
Ask your leadership/marketing team what gives them anxiety and then attack those points as part of your 1st launch. For e.g. if they are worried about bad PR then ask the...
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Figma Product, AI • 1y
1 Waiting too long to talk to potential customers. Start with just your idea of what you think might be compelling. Can a potential customer immediately understand and ge...
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BILL Director Product Management • Apr 14
This is one of the most interesting tensions in product right now, and honestly there is no perfect formula.The way we think about it: current customer needs tell you whe...
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The Walt Disney Company Director of Product Management • 10mo
It's critical to stress-test if the problem is even worth solving - and if it’s urgent enough for someone to pay (in time or money) to fix it.Some dimensions I'd use to e...
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How do you get inspiration for product design when it comes to designing a new product?
After gathering all the requirements and having great insights into users pinpoints, studied competitors, and market trends, How do you then get the inspiration for design layout before talking to your designer to translate all of this into an intuitive user experience
BILL Director Product Management • Apr 14
Inspiration depends on what we're building, but the worst thing we can do is only look at what competitors are doing. That's how you build a faster horse.At BILL, we pull...
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IBM Product Management • 9mo
Prototypes are by definition a first draft or concept for your feature or capability. These can come in.a variety of flavors from a slide show of mocks, Figma files, flow...
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How do you go about brainstorming the right solutions in terms of coming up with user experience to address the validated problems to be solved for users
How and where do you get inspiration to determine how and what types of user experience to be built and fleshing this our in your user stories while writing PRD
BILL Director Product Management • Apr 14
Once the problem is validated, we use the Design for Delight (D4D) framework to drive solution brainstorming, three principles that work really well in sequence.Deep cust...
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Product Management Leader • 5mo
Always start with purpose. Why are you running the early access program? What assumptions are you testing, and what do you need to learn? Clarity here keeps your efforts ...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 5mo
Conducting post-launch reviews and feeding learnings back into the roadmapA well-run post-launch review is more than a retrospective - it’s a structured way to convert cu...
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Product Management Leader • 5mo
At Atlassian, assessing which problems to tackle is a deeply cross-craft and strategic process.When we propose a new strategy or explore a meaty new problem space, it typ...
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Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 10mo
Engineering needs clear context on why a problem matters - its root cause and its business impact. The timing of their involvement depends on their availability and the p...
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 5mo
AI has fundamentally accelerated and elevated our product planning process. If you haven’t revisited your strategy through the lens of AI—whether to build new capabilitie...
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GitLab Group Product Manager • 5mo
That’s a great question. I’ve seen a lot of people and companies building AI features simply to have AI features and say they are “AI powered”. That’s a losing strategy. ...
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Atlassian Head of Product, DevOps • 10mo
This comes up a lot on teams that build for developers. It’s great when engineers are close to the problem, but personal experience is not a substitute for user research ...
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Flexera Chief Product Officer | Formerly Rackspace, Dell • 6mo
Within a given quarter, we expect to deliver on at least 85% of what we have committed. This leaves open 15% for a mid-cycle change. If someone determines that work that ...
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Is there a framework that you use to decide whether a problem, feature or project is best suited for AI?
How do you go about operationalizing this framework in terms of aligning stakeholders, gathering data, developing feature requirements and so on?
Google Group Product Manager, Android • 2mo
Less of a framework, more of a question -- are the product needs aligned with what AI is fundamentally good at?LLMs are phenomenal at language, phenomenal at coding, exce...
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Former BILL Director, Product Management - Payments • 5mo
The biggest misconception is believing AI will do everything for you- define the MVP, decide what to build, and evaluate itself. It won’t. You still need clear requiremen...
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Flexera Chief Product Officer | Formerly Rackspace, Dell • 6mo
Deciding between build, buy, and partner is a regular conversation at Flexera. Here is how we work it through:Build: Capabilities that are core to our business and that w...
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Google Group Product Manager, Android • 2mo
Either out-perform for a smaller segment of the market, or wait for the competitor to fail.If the established competitor is serving a broad set of users or customers, it’...
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JetBrains Head of Product | Formerly GitLab, Jit.io, Cellebrite, Anima • 2mo
To gather feedback from existing customers of mature products, I usually combine several approaches:In product feedback mechanisms. Simple signals such as short surveys, ...
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JetBrains Head of Product | Formerly GitLab, Jit.io, Cellebrite, Anima • 2mo
First, I spend time understanding the personas who are already using the product. The goal is to make sure they are still capturing value and that their workflows have no...
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Workiva Vice President Of Product Management • 2y
I would define a mature product as one that has reached product market fit, is feature rich and integrated with an ecosystem and is stable, secure, performant in terms of...
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Oracle Product Strategy Director • 2y
It can be difficult to win investment on mature products since engineering teams are looking to build new things. Additionally a mature product is often seen as nearing e...
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Head of Product, VP • 2y
Any product metric (for products at any stage) should ideally be tied to business goals and to user goals. So if the business goals are focussed on revenue growth, then ...
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Head of Product, VP • 2y
There are multiple definitions out there for "mature products", but it ultimately depends on the product and business leaders in a company to define that as they know the...
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Workiva Vice President Of Product Management • 2y
If you are an outcome driven product team (which I hope you are), I think this should be defined as the change in behavior you expect to see/create for users of your new ...
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Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 3mo
Teams that have worked on a product for years bring deep context, but they can also become strongly entrenched in existing beliefs and decisions.Start with empathy. Give ...
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Contentful VP, Product Management | Formerly Twilio, SendGrid • 3y
I've found it helpful to craft a ~3-year product strategy that articulates the market and trends, the challenges/opportunities, and the product's path forward with cohere...
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Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
See question “What methodologies do you employ to optimize mature products for performance, cost, and efficiency?”
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Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
If you haven’t already, it’s helpful to start with the context in “How do you define a mature product?”I’ve touched on optimization in “How do you know when a new feature...
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Workiva Vice President Of Product Management • 2y
The thing to keep in mind with mature products is work does not stop. If you are doing a good job as a Product Manager you will continue to find new customer problems, en...
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Google Group Product Manager • 5mo
With GenAI, user feedback comes in the traditional forms as well as Thumbs up, Thumbs downQuery edit and retries. Users are prompt engineering constantly. The perception ...
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Google Group Product Manager • 5mo
I see a few changesEvals is a new area. This is led by PM or Program Manager in conjunction with Data Science, User Research and often involves vendors for scaling. Trust...
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Google Group Product Manager • 5mo
The rule of thumb is that User Safety and Privacy trump everything else. This is further accentuated in Enterprise usecases.Reliability is important but you may argue tha...
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Former BILL Director, Product Management - Payments • 5mo
I use a simple filter: if the problem is deterministic, rules-based, and predictable, traditional software is better. AI shines when there’s lots of data, high variabilit...
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Superhuman Head of Product, Enterprise • 6mo
There are a few well known techniques that can help adapt product development in the world of ML/AI featuresEvals: Evals are essentially data sets that represent your key...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 6mo
A structured way to estimate effort and manage uncertainty is through the 3C Framework – Clarity, Calibration, and Control. It helps balance speed with confidence in deli...
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 5mo
My role isn’t to dictate features but to provide the strategic context, air cover, and cross-functional alignment the team needs to make confident decisions that drive th...
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How do you measure the performance of the product team, considering only product managers, group product managers and product head?
Some companies go through challenges such as excessive bugs, refactoring, in many cases we have the company pursuing the delivery of short-term projects and sometimes the product team is the driver.
Do you believe it is possible to demand performance from a product team based on individual delivery?
GitLab Group Product Manager • 5mo
Personally, I don’t measure PM performance by individual feature delivery. That’s not the PM’s job. Tying a PM’s performance and value to delivery creates all the wrong i...
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Eventbrite Senior Director of Product • 2y
Collaboration between product development, engineering, design, and other teams is crucial for successful product outcomes. When working with an engineering manager, desi...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 6mo
We follow a biweekly cadence for backlog refinement and sprint planning to stay agile in execution while maintaining alignment with longer-term strategic goals. This rhyt...
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Flexera Chief Product Officer | Formerly Rackspace, Dell • 6mo
We have both a Product and Engineering Operations team at Flexera. Our Product Ops org does the following:Product Analytics & Insights: Team owns the implementation o...
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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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Eventbrite Senior Director of Product • 2y
In my experience, there is no golden ratio or right answer to this question. Many factors determine what the "right" ratio is depending on the industry, org structure, si...
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Product Management Leader • 5mo
This question made me smile. “Rogue engineers” is quite a term :) .First, I believe anyone, regardless of craft, should feel empowered to suggest ideas, challenge assumpt...
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Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte • 5mo
We use a two-stage review process that separates "are we solving the right problem?" from "are we solving the problem right?" This ensures engineering understands not jus...
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How are PMs that worked on products across multiple industries perceived while evaluating for a PM role in a new/different industry? How can they sell themselves better? Wouldn't the outside perspective bring fresh external breath to the existing product ecosystem? Learning from the best practices in other industries can help immensely, isn't it? Your thoughts?
E.g. A PM with experience working on products across industries like Telecom, CGR, BFS, Insurance etc applying for a PM role in a product company that is in healthcare space. How can they sell themselves?
Product Management Leader • 5mo
Experience across multiple industries is a real strength for a PM. It shows adaptability, curiosity, and the ability to learn fast, all essential traits for product leade...
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Product Management Leader • 5mo
I do not expect PMs to be analysts, but I do expect them to be data fluent. They should be able to self-serve, interpret results, and use data to make confident product d...
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