Product Management
Product Development
Product Development
Product Management Leader • 6mo
Being at Atlassian, you can probably guess some of my answers, but tools are only as good as the habits that keep them current. Here is how we approach it.RoadmapFirstly,...
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Co-author Product Roadmaps Relaunched | Formerly Openly, MachineMetrics, ConstantContact, Vempathy, Fresh Tilled Soil • 2y
I'll start with an upfront caveat - there is no one product development process. How you go about development will depend on what you want to develop: An entirely new pro...
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Eventbrite Senior Director of Product • 2y
Setting clear and realistic expectations between development teams and leadership is key to the success of any product development team. Here are some strategies I use to...
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Shopify Senior Product Lead | Formerly Salesforce, Google, Nest, Cisco Systems • 3y
Work in the open. Create a culture on your team that encourages sharing unfinished work and working live together. This will drive the highest quality bar for your team. ...
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Typeform Chief Product Officer • 3y
I recommend triangulation as much as is possible. Without a QA function, engineering should be checking to make sure from a technical standpoint that what they have built...
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Typeform Chief Product Officer • 3y
Our team believes that success metrics have the highest likelihood of driving focus and execution quality when they are tied to our strategy and something we consistently...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 3y
I’m a huge believer in transparency. Make your roadmap and decision process transparent. We use a weighted scoring algorithm where roadmap items (and ultimately supportin...
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Eventbrite Senior Director of Product • 2y
Balancing "shipping on time" with ensuring you have the right market insights to prioritize the roadmap correctly is a common challenge in product development. Striking t...
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DocuSign Director of Product Management • 3y
There are a lot of ways to gather feedback about a problem and build conviction around them, and all of them involve talking to your potential target customers. For this ...
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Buffer Staff Product Manager | Formerly Wayfair, Abstract, CustomMade, Sonicbids • 4y
This is hard! For me, it's a mix of having a good understanding and confidence that you have
(1) a clear hypothesis that you can test with a minimally viable product tha...
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How do you balance investing in large, foundational projects that take time to deliver value with pursuing smaller, quick-win features that can immediately delight users? Any frameworks or strategies you recommend?
Our team is prioritizing several large, high-impact projects backed by strong data and customer insights, but they’re taking a long time to deliver value as we are a startup with limited resources. How do you balance these large projects with smaller, quick-win features that delight users but may not move major metrics?
Asana Former Head of Product Operations | Formerly Adobe • 9mo
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Asana Former Head of Product Operations | Formerly Adobe • 9mo
as soon as you can get meaningful feedback
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GitLab Group Product Manager • 10mo
Find out what the stakeholders need from you and set up a regular meeting cadence with them. It can be a lot of meetings, but setting these meetings up with clear agendas...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 2y
I typically take the following into consideration for prioritising (in no particular order): Assess impact: Evaluate the magnitude and consequences of each problem.Align ...
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IBM Product Management • 10mo
This is an interesting question. Low cost leadership is often never going to end up delivering the value or quality of experience needed by users. There are several lever...
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PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte • 1y
An approach that has worked for me, treading in 0 to 1 spaces:Use in-depth interviews (IDIs) to understand deeply understand your target users' psyche. You don't have to ...
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Under what circumstances is it worthwhile to pursue a 0-1 product that can be easily duplicated by a large competitor?
Often times, early product start out as features. My worry is that a competitor would just copy us and then wipe us out.
Nuvemshop Director, Product Growth | Formerly Superhuman, RD Station, IBM, Bosch • 11mo
Classic startup fear—I get it. The reality is that many great products begin as “just a feature” of someone else’s platform—but they succeed by doing that feature extreme...
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Lead Product Manager and GTM Specialist | Formerly Mailchimp - Caspian - Zeda.io • 1y
From my experience, you should never invest in another product unless your first product has achieved PM-fit because you dont want to kill the momentum and growth youre a...
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What is your first step in developing a 0-1 product?
I haven't heard the phrase 0-1 products before and would love to learn more about it.
Notable Head of Product • 2y
The first step in developing a 0-1 product is to deeply immerse yourself in the problem space and understand the users experiencing this problem. This foundational unders...
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Bubble Group Product Manager | Formerly Quizlet, Chegg • 3y
After 2.5 years into working remotely, the two areas that have been the most challenging for me are 1) cross functional exploration and ideation and 2) user research outs...
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How do you go about product integrations
With the ever increasing amount of SaaS software's out there, offering integrations is key to helping customers adopt our product. Now at what point does it become beneficial to stop developing this in-house and use a 3rd party. We're considering an iPaaS for our platform and I want to know why would it not make sense to do so maybe
Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
If you haven’t already, it’s helpful to start with the context of the question: “How do you define a mature product?”In today’s fragmented software landscape, having a st...
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Hex Head of Product | Formerly Fivetran • 1y
Product management is different at every organization and there are many organizations where it is more of a project management function. If your manager is assigning pro...
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Clarity Pediatrics Marketing & Growth Advisor • 1y
Thank you Clare! I am curious, at Oscar Health, is Product Operations part of the Strategy & Biz Ops team, or part of the Product team? What's the career path for pro...
Contentful VP, Product Management | Formerly Twilio, SendGrid • 3y
Business objectives help the broader team and business understand if they've achieved the intended impact but are difficult for a product team to use sprint to sprint for...
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Lemon.io Head of Growth Product Marketing | Formerly LottieFiles, WeLoveNoCode (made $3.6M ARR), Abstract, Flawless App (sold) • 3y
Interesting question, I will answer it from the experience working in fast-growing startups.
Choosing the right features to develop is hard for new products & startu...
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Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
Here at Oscar, we’re fortunate to have a robust Product Analytics team that sits within our Data function. Our Product Managers work directly with Product Analytics and b...
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Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
Unfortunately there’s no perfect ratio – each Product Ops team I’ve run or learned about has a very different structure and mandate! I’ve heard of successful models with ...
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OEC Head of Global Product Operations • 4y
This is such a new field I think we are all still trying to figure it out together. However ...
Product Ops should be a feeder role into other product roles like Product...
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Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
I’m actively hiring for several Product Operations roles, including for Associate Product Operations Managers, so you can check out the specific job descriptions on our c...
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OEC Head of Global Product Operations • 4y
When I started Product Ops here at realtor.com I started with mission, principles, and northstar metric:
Mission:
Help level and clear the field on which our people and t...
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Twilio Sr. Dir, Product - Technology Partners • 4y
I've noticed it's pretty common that this role can be overlooked / under resourced. Instead, companies will rely on product ops being addressed via a team effort between ...
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Twilio Sr. Dir, Product - Technology Partners • 4y
30: listen, learn, pull data, conduct cross-dept & key stakeholder interviews. Immediately get with finance to understand the product business model & resourcing....
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Twilio Sr. Dir, Product - Technology Partners • 4y
I've found it's been critical to feel competent in running a business end-to-end. By this, I mean I've focused on taking a 360 view regardless of where I've sat within my...
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Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
Oscar Health is the first company I’ve worked in with both Product Ops and PMO (Program Management Office), so I can share how we think about the distinction in our conte...
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How can product operations and revenue operations align on strategic company goals?
I’m in revenue operations and my role requires me to essentially be the connective tissue/muscle between senior leadership and the business operations and product operations teams . However, I’m finding that product operations as well as business operations cannot agree on how to prioritize product enhancement requests and how these requests should support the overall strategic goals of the company. I’d love to hear if this is common and how to bridge the gap between the three functions .
Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
I can’t answer this question specifically, because I haven’t worked closely with a revenue operations function. But here are a few thoughts about aligning on priority and...
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Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
I’m going to give the classic infuriating answer: It depends.
But I know that answer isn’t particularly useful, so here’s how I would think about it. Product Operations ...
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Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
My go-to resource for Product Ops right now is PLA They have great blog posts and a Product Ops Summit (at least once per year, maybe twice?). My favorite aspect is their...
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What is your strategy for product operations and how are you measuring progress towards it?
I am interested to understand how leaders are setting up their overall strategic direction and goals for product operations, as well as measuring progress.
Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
As mentioned in another question, my “north star” for Product Operations is to “unlock Oscar’s ability to ship more product, better and faster.” The majority of my team d...
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What do you see as an ideal organizational structure and placement for Product Ops?
What is a good ratio of Product Ops people to Product Managers?
Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
In my experience, it’s worked out extremely well to have Product Operations report directly to the Head of Product. Here at Oscar, I directly report into Jesse Horowitz, ...
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Oscar Health Senior Director, Product Operations • 4y
Great question! As I’ve spoken to other Product Operations leaders, I’ve found that the team structure and role varies widely from company to company. Coming into Oscar H...
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OEC Head of Global Product Operations • 4y
I love this question because I have been asking people this same one for ever since I started in Product roles :) It’s also an exhausting question because roadmaps and th...
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OEC Head of Global Product Operations • 4y
I’m going to sound like a broken record, but we should really be looking at Product Ops as a way to force multiply the work of our teams vs. carving out responsibilities ...
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