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Product Development Process
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For a visible project that has the attention of upper leadership, I think of 3 checkpoints with leadership: 1. Showcasing the vision at the beginning of the project Once I have nailed down the problem to solve, why it's important to solve, how it contributes to broader business goals, and you......Read More
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Laura Oppenheimer
Bubble Group Product Manager • July 29
At the very beginning! It's so important to align on the why for any initiative. Why now? Why is it important? And a big part of that why is what the world will look like when you're ultimately very successful. To bring that to light, I usually define 1) a success metric -- the one thing we're go......Read More
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Ingo Wiegand
Samsara Vice President of Product Management - Safety • March 31
* The right PM to Eng ratio depends on a couple of different factors, many of which can from my perspective be boiled down to 1) the overall stage and scale of the company and 2) the nature of the product you are working on. Given those dependencies, it also makes sense to revisit this ......Read More
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Ingo Wiegand
Samsara Vice President of Product Management - Safety • March 31
* Generally, I think about three fundamental dimensions in product development: time, scope, and resourcing. You will never be able to force all three to your liking, in most cases you will pick two, which in turn determine the third: * If you have a team with a given size and you p......Read More
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Ingo Wiegand
Samsara Vice President of Product Management - Safety • March 31
* 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 to approach a problem decomposition like this is to think of three distinct categories of feature work: a) items ......Read More
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Aleks Bass
Typeform Vice President Product Management • September 7
Our product development lifecycle process looks very similar to a double diamond design process but with an adapted approach for our organization. While there are best practices for a product development processes, I've found that there is a decent amount of adaptation and adjustment that needs t......Read More
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Ingo Wiegand
Samsara Vice President of Product Management - Safety • March 31
* I’m a strong believer in product/feature teams owning their deliverables end to end, which includes not only product definition and development, but also testing and validation. * This is even more important in an early-stage environment, where moving quickly means engineers will nee......Read More
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Ingo Wiegand
Samsara Vice President of Product Management - Safety • March 31
* The first question I would ask is whether PM and engineering have aligned upfront on a mutually agreed-upon definition of the problem to be solved and the definition of success. * In my experience, engineers don’t just slip in features for no reason, but there might be other failure ......Read More
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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?
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Sailaja Kalle
Gainsight Director, Product Management • January 10
An ideal Product team would be the one which is aligned and transparent to larger organisation in terms of where they are, where they are going and how they plan to go there. The team is complementary to one another, have great e people skills, have the right process and one that challenges assum......Read More
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This is a continual process! It is important to have regular syncs with the engineering team to discuss progress, open product questions, and review next steps. I don't think this can be done in stand ups, but rather having a weekly 30 min sync has worked for me. I don't think it's possible t......Read More
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