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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

Aaron Bloom
Aaron Bloom

Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 1y

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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What are good OKRs for product management?

Yogesh Paliwal
Yogesh Paliwal

Cisco Director of Product Management • 1y

True OKRs should be cross-functional and not limited to specific areas such as Product Management, Design, UX, or SRE. The "Objective" (O) in OKRs should promote alignmen...
3,058 Views

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?

Subu Baskaran
Subu Baskaran

Splunk Director of Product Management • 7mo

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...
763 Views

I’m the first PM hire in my company. What advice would you give to someone tasked with establishing this function in an existing business structure?

Paresh Vakhariya
Paresh Vakhariya

Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon • 2y

Here is my advice for a junior PM in a small company:Get to know your product. Learn to ue it everyday and document any issues you seeTalk to customers about their experi...
840 Views

While working on large and complex projects, how to effectively manage between speed of delivery vs managing and aligning a large number of stakeholders?

Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)

Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon • 4y

Creating the right mechanisms to manage your stakeholders is critical to managing up and across. Allowing your stakeholders to stay on the pulse of your product while hav...
1,341 Views

What would be your advice or go to resources for a PM to build one critical thinking skills?

What would be your advice or go-to resources for a PM to build critical thinking skills?

Aaron Bloom
Aaron Bloom

Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 1y

To expand your critical thinking, stay curious, and ask lots of questions. Early on you might need to focus on your specific area or role to ensure you are driving value ...
737 Views

When there’s a lot of top-down direction and competing priorities, how do you cut through the noise to advocate for what you believe is the most impactful opportunity?

How do you balance staying aligned with leadership while still driving conviction in your point of view?

Deepti Pradeep
Deepti Pradeep

Adobe Senior Director of Product Management & Growth (Creative Cloud) • 11mo

Data is at the heart of every negotiation. First, deeply understand what levers drive your specific business and where the biggest problem areas. For example, do you hav...
559 Views

With the tech industry increasingly shifting toward AI-driven products and experiences, how do you see the role of growth product managers evolving?

What new skills, mindsets, or areas of ownership do you think will define success for growth PMs in this new landscape?

Deepti Pradeep
Deepti Pradeep

Adobe Senior Director of Product Management & Growth (Creative Cloud) • 11mo

Product Growth has always used AI to some extent - we have always leveraged various types of models like propensity models for revenue optimization, predictive models to ...
717 Views

What is your advice for creating and/or improving the product management process when joining a small but growing team? Particularly for a small company with no or little structure?

Leo Sadeq
Leo Sadeq

Lead Product Manager and GTM Specialist | Formerly Mailchimp - Caspian - Zeda.io • 1y

Id say the main key things to do is to focus on agility and results over rigid frameworks.1. Start with outcomes, not inputs. Align the team around clear measurable outco...
153 Views

If you were starting out in a rapidly growing company would you start by embedding some best practice and then start to build out a team or start by building a small but mighty team and tackle it as a group?

Mike Flouton
Mike Flouton

Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 4y

My bias is always to start building a small but mighty team of A players. A players will make magic happen despite a lack of process. Process is helpful in larger organi...
333 Views

How do you approach setting crisp KPIs and targets for Engine features and linking them to your topline metrics? Do you directly try to assess visual quality and performance budget?

Game and Engine Features often have success targets that are complex to define, such as visual quality or runtime performance targets (eg. ms budget). These KPIs + targets can also be challenging to link to company topline metrics such as revenue.

Laurent Gibert
Laurent Gibert

Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y

To build up the best Objectives and Key Results, I usually ask the Product teams to follow a yearly schedule of strategic planning (aligned on fiscal year, ideally also a...
633 Views

How do you define and set SLAs with engineers?

I'm currently struggling to define checkout error rates for our e-commerce platform. We're currently at 1.5%. Personally, I think it's too high. However, I have nothing to substantiate my opinion.

Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)
Virgilia Kaur Pruthi (she/her)

Expedia Group Senior Director of Product, Head of Trust and Safety | Formerly Amazon • 4y

I would recommend first building a relationship with your technical lead/engineering counterpart. Have them show you how your e-commerce platform (or product area) works ...
1,058 Views

Is there overlap between PMs and the User Research function when PMs should know their users firsthand? How do you build teams with the right target ratio or support from User Research and to some extent Data Scientists/Analysts as well? Do those functions support individual teams or executives trying to understand broader trends?

Nicolas Liatti
Nicolas Liatti

Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category • 1y

There is definitely an overlap between User Research and PM, and I think it depends on the size of the company and organization also. If you have the chance to get a grea...
990 Views
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