23. Putting it all together
Infrastructure: monitor SLA to re-prioritize
Interface: build for buyers and end-users, based on your north star
Intelligence: build AI-first and make everyone in the team a data analyst
I’d like to share with you something, that at least for me, changed my life as a PM. And simplified
Atmosphere
Thom yesterday morning said good PMs need to be able to break every problem into three points.
But before I go into the details of each, let me take a step back and show you how I got here.
I love working in SaaS - especially at SAP every day a new industry a new customer with their specific problems.
Working on something people use every day.
3am - you get the call you’re all dreading
The app is down - isn’t this awesome
Try with revenue, let’s prioritize all the tasks we believe have the most impact on the bottom line.
ARR, ARM
Kano
3am story, but another good one
3 years ago, supply chain solution, 10% savings in raw material, put so much load on the DB that it tripled the time it takes to process a truck at the warehouse.
>> learning, when building customer requests, never forget the infra
If we would have had end 2 end tests in our SLA, we would have noticed
B2B - the buyer is often not the user.
This is an SAP event, many C levels.
Swarovski story, takes out his phone to show everyone what he can do know with this shiny new SAP
You need a metric that normalizes all stories and features built.
North star, revenue is a lagging indicator.
Ideally you want a leading indicator - more weekly active users, will lead to more revenue.
I’m sure most of you have heard about AI and ML
Everyone in the team has access to GA, Amplitude, etc. but most importantly everyone knows a bit of data analysis, Udacity
The components of my roadmap, it exists in github, airtable, community page, excel
Interface are end user features, plus growth hacks
Infra includes API work, scale work, integration work
Intelligence is everything around ML and AI, data collecting, notifications
Customer specific needs are marked on the post it.