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Rameez Kakodker
PTOTD#65

If your roadmaps are decided at the beginning of the year and do not change with customer/business priorities, you might be a corpo product manager.

Thoughts on the PTOTD

With the agile revolution finally hitting the corpos, the naysayers have found a safe (Pun intended) haven in SAFe. SAFe is not agile. Agility means that the team works to deliver workable iterations of a product that delivers value to both customers & business. This also means that nothing is written in stone — no long-term roadmaps, no long-term commitments, nothing! Nothing can stand in the way of delivering measurable improvements in the product.

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  2. If you (or people around you) talk a lot of theory, you might just be a corporate product manager.
  3. In the early stages of your product, it’s perfectly fine to do things that don’t scale. It’ll help your product grow.
  4. Balance out forward planning & backward planning when building your product.
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