467: Strategic product planning – with Yaroslav Lazor
Dec 11, 2023
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Yaroslav Lazor, Founder and CEO of Railsware, discusses strategic product planning, bridging the gap between product managers and engineers, and the importance of alignment in successful product development. He also shares insights on overcoming challenges, building products using the Bridges framework, and their consultancy services.
Aligning communication between product managers and engineers is crucial for successful product development.
Using the Bridges framework helps establish empathy and shared understanding among team members, minimizing communication gaps and maximizing collaboration.
Deep dives
Strategic Product Planning and Frameworks
Strategic product planning involves decision making, problem solving, feature prioritization, and product vision creation. Yaroslav Lazar, the founder and CEO of Railsware, developed tools and frameworks for strategic product planning. Railsware is a product studio focused on creating services and products. The key takeaway is the importance of aligning communication between product managers and engineers to bridge the gap and work harmoniously.
Bridging the Gap between Product and Engineering
Bridging the gap between product and engineering is crucial for successful product development. By using the Bridges framework, which maps out the problem space and solution space on separate boards, Railsware ensures that everyone involved understands the users' problems and needs. The framework helps establish empathy and creates a shared understanding among team members. By aligning everyone on the same page, Railsware minimizes communication gaps and maximizes collaboration.
The Heart Method for Execution
The Heart Method focuses on delivering the most important and riskiest components of a product first. By tackling the hard parts upfront, Railsware ensures that potential challenges and limitations are addressed early in the development process. This method helps the team stay focused and ensures that the core functionality of the product is delivered, keeping it functional at every step. By prioritizing the most critical aspects, Railsware efficiently develops usable products and minimizes wasted efforts.
The Importance of Seeking Solutions
The quote 'those who seek shall find' emphasizes the importance of actively seeking solutions and not settling for mediocre outcomes. Railsware applies this mindset in their product development and hiring processes. They emphasize the importance of thorough search and testing when hiring and discovering the most effective solutions for their clients. By adopting a proactive approach to problem-solving, Railsware continually seeks innovative and effective solutions.
Unpacking the BRIDGeS framework for product managers Today we are talking about strategic product planning, which involves decision-making, problem-solving, feature prioritization, and product vision creation. Our guest is Yaroslav Lazor, Founder and CEO of Railsware. He created the strategic product planning tools and frameworks that Railsware continues to apply on projects for customers as well […]
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