Product Development Process
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
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 10mo
Once I've gathered and documented a summary of user insights, market and competitive context, and product requirements, I focus on mapping out the key user workflows. Thi...
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Intuit Director of Product Management • 6mo
I’m a big fan of customer advisory boards, or CABs for B2B products. These customers or potential customers can be excellent and recurring sources of input for your produ...
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Cortex VP of Product | Formerly Splunk, Deloitte • 5mo
Our post-launch review process is embedded directly into our stage gate criteria and living documentation approach, creating continuous feedback loops rather than discret...
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Matterport VP of Product • 6mo
The required approach is contingent upon the scope and potential impact of the issue. For minor or more isolated concerns, I typically collaborate directly with my engine...
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Ignition SVP, Product | Formerly Cornerstone OnDemand, Groundswell, Skilljar, Gainsight • 1mo
tl;dr: Engineering should be involved from the start—because in an AI-native world, the distinction between roles is breaking down.What’s changing:Roles are converging in...
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Ignition SVP, Product | Formerly Cornerstone OnDemand, Groundswell, Skilljar, Gainsight • 1mo
tl;dr: AI has shifted roadmap planning from upfront certainty to continuous learning. The constraint is no longer building; it’s deciding what’s worth keeping.What’s fund...
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Ignition SVP, Product | Formerly Cornerstone OnDemand, Groundswell, Skilljar, Gainsight • 1mo
tl;dr: I don’t use a separate framework for AI. I evaluate it the same way I would any feature: does it solve a real, validated problem and materially improve the user’s ...
553 Views
Contentful VP, Product Management | Formerly Twilio, SendGrid • 3y
As a product manager, it's essential to consider the perspectives and expertise of all team members, including engineers. However, it's also important to remember that as...
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Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 6mo
In fast-moving AI product work, scope changes are normal. My governance balances speed and control so we can iterate without chaos. Here is my scope change formulaTriage ...
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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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Google Group Product Manager • 5mo
In my experiences, the biggest challenge is to change user behaviors fundamentally. Its far easier to insert AI into something users already do versus create a net new su...
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Superhuman Head of Product, Enterprise • 6mo
It depends! I bet you are tired of hearing that but it actually does. Here are a few things to considerHow quickly do you need to go to market?BuildDoes the team have exp...
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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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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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GitLab Group Product Manager • 5mo
In my experience, the shape of the team is more or less the same as a traditional product team. All of the same functions need to be accounted for. There are a few additi...
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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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Splunk Director of Product Management • 5mo
In B2B environments, AI can dramatically simplify complex workflows—whether through chat-based interfaces, dynamic wizards, or fully contextual recommendations. But conte...
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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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Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 6mo
In AI projects, I estimate both effort and uncertainty separately to avoid surprises. Effort covers build time, while uncertainty reflects data quality, model readiness, ...
632 Views
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?
Splunk Director of Product Management • 5mo
I evaluate the performance of the product team—IC PMs, GPMs, and product leads—across five core dimensions: customer satisfaction, quality of deliverables, clarity of str...
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Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 10mo
A key responsibility of the Product Manager is to align cross-functional teams around the problem statement, business need, and OKRs. When everyone understands the "why" ...
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Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 6mo
We run a 2 weeks dev sprint and release cycle. Staretgic alignment is done using OKR based framework. We call it V2MOM (Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, and Measures)....
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Former BILL Director, Product Management - Payments • 5mo
Yes, Product Ops is critical, especially in FinTech where money movement is involved. I like to involve them end-to-end: pre-launch for requirements and operational risks...
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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...
501 Views
Co-author Product Roadmaps Relaunched | Formerly Openly, MachineMetrics, ConstantContact, Vempathy, Fresh Tilled Soil • 2y
I generally go by this guide7 to 10 engineers for every 1 designer1 product manager for every 7 to 10 "makers" (designers + engineers)It's never a hard and fast rule as e...
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Cisco Director of Product Management • 1y
There is no such thing as "rogue engineer" everyone comes to job to best of their abilities however I understand the nuanced question. here is my take
Bunch of tools ...
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Eventbrite Senior Director of Product • 2y
Ensuring that the engineering team understands the project scope is a joint effort between product management and engineering. To do this effectively, there are a many st...
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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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Level AI VP of Product • 2y
“Data depth” is a core competency for any PM and unlocks “data informed’ strategy. However, how much data analysis a PM will need to do will depend on the maturity of th...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 6mo
At our company, we use a tightly integrated set of tools to maintain a single source of truth across Product planning, Design, and Decision-making / Prioritisation activi...
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Shopify Senior Product Lead | Formerly Salesforce, Google, Nest, Cisco Systems • 3y
I don’t believe in a universal end-to-end product development process. I believe there are key rituals and elements that should be present on every team to ensure great o...
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BILL Director Product Management • 7mo
Setting clear expectations between development and leadership is one of the most important parts of my role as a PM. I see myself as the bridge — translating strategy int...
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Level AI VP of Product • 2y
QA should always be an ongoing effort and be treated as a team effort. There might be spikes in QA efforts based on the complexity of the project but it should never be ...
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Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 10mo
QA testing is a minimum requirement for every story - shipping untested features leads to compounding quality issues that are harder to untangle later, which will slow do...
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Co-author Product Roadmaps Relaunched | Formerly Openly, MachineMetrics, ConstantContact, Vempathy, Fresh Tilled Soil • 2y
As soon as we start talking about the idea. PMs need to have a hypothesis about what a good outcome looks lie in the beginning. For example we were talking about some cha...
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Shopify Senior Staff Product Manager • 3y
Generally, the engineering manager (EM) is more involved than the individual contributor (IC) engineers. First, before planning of individual features happen, I make sure...
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Superhuman Head of Product, Enterprise • 6mo
The key question to answer here is "What are you trying to learn?" The answer to this needs to crisp for you and the team. Ideally it wouldn't be a collection of multiple...
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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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