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How best to align Product Marketing and the Product development roadmap?

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  1. Ben Geller
    Ben Geller

    Former Director, Product Marketing & Demand Generation at You.com | Formerly LinkedIn • 1y

    It starts with shared planning. The strongest PMM organizations will co-develop the roadmap during quarterly planning—not influence it after the fact. That way, you’re not “catching up” to what product/engineering/design is doing. You’re solving the same problems, just from different angles.

    Put simply—the best alignment happens before the roadmap is locked. If PMM is not in the upfront planning sessions, true alignment won't be possible.

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  2. Harish Peri
    Harish Peri

    Okta SVP Product Marketing • 4y

    Team alignment --> Map your PMMs to your PMs or their teams as much as possible. Embed them into the PM rituals like release planning, release reviews etc (not at the super detailed story/sprint level). Ensure that your PMMs know the product - they can demo it, answer enough questions about capabilities, gotchas, etc.  Outbound process alignment --> Empower PMMs to own the release marketing/comms process. They should be able to plug into a broader release cadence, make calls on what featur ...Read More

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