Varun Parmar
SVP & GM, Adobe. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Parmar oversees enterprise generative AI solutions and marketing workflows at Adobe, spanning Adobe GenStudio and Firefly Services. He previously served as Chief Product Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Miro, Chief Product Officer at Box, and co-founded document collaboration startup Doculus.
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Everything Varun Parmar said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
A company's success is directly determined by what its competition allows
“The success of a company is a direct relation of what the competition allows you to do. I feel like not many people sort of talk about that, but in many cases in my professional career, and I've been at it for, you know, close to 24, 25 years, is that every si…”
Being the first to hit a brick wall yields a competitive advantage
“What you want to do is that you want to be the first one to hit the brick wall where you have this, where you have the learning faster than anyone else in the market so that you can decide, oh my God, the path that I was going was not the right path. I need to…”
Miro structures its product organization around persona-focused stream teams
“So I would say it's maybe a hybrid structure that we have but the sort of the foundation of the of the team setup is is around persona. So we have what we refer to as streams, you know, some companies refer to as domains, but essentially it's a set of individu…”
Miro structures its product organization as cross-functional AMPED units
“When we think about the product org, like, we call our org, it's called AMPED, A-M-P-E-D... AMP stands for like analytics, marketing, product, engineering, and design. And everything that we do in the product org, when we say the product org, we actually don't…”
Software products never stay static; every deployment improves or degrades them
“Products either get better over a period of time or they get worse. Products never remain the same. And I think you can take that philosophy to a bunch of things in life, but I'm going to take the lens of products, which is my core philosophy is like every sin…”
Ten-x speed comes from scoping and architecture, not working faster
“It's not that they are like 10 times faster. It's just that in my observation that they've figured out which part of the core base they should build in versus not, who should be part of their team and who should not be, how they need to define that from a scop…”
Miro design leadership runs a monthly binary quality triage on shipped features
“Like when we ship stuff on a monthly basis, our design leadership team does a triage of everything that got shipped into, like, High quality or not high quality. It's just like a binary function, and we're doing that, and we're saying, hey, the reason why we b…”
Measuring product velocity is like golf; teams compete against their own baseline
“Velocity is more like the game of golf where you're just playing against yourself. Like, it's not like if Lenny and Varun are out of the golf course, like, it doesn't matter. Like, you know, I'm not competing against you. I'm just competing against myself beca…”
Miro switched from quarterly OKRs to six-month key results
“Early on, we were doing OKRs on a quarterly basis. And I would say more recently, we've actually evolved to six month KRs. And what we found was that You know, six months was the right cadence in terms of giving enough time for teams to basically push forward …”
No universal tool exists to solve product roadmapping at scale
“Our observation is that while those tools are great for the unique needs that they're solving, we haven't found, like, a, like a universal solution for road mapping, so there are some teams that use Miro, you know, for road mapping, and they would use the Kanb…”
Parmar: Miro has over 50 million users on its platform
“And, you know, now, as you know, we have over fifty million people on the platform.”
Product leaders must balance stream improvement and holding peers accountable
“You have two personas that you have to think about. Everyone who's on the product leadership team is, is a product leadership team member, and the fundamental thing that you have to do is drive accountability. So the number one thing that a product leader on t…”
Varun Parmar takes open peer feedback from his leadership team at offsites
“Every offsite that I do with my leadership team, usually there is a one to two hour session where it is feedback to Varun. And I actually do it openly. I will have about eight to 10 people in the room, and I will force people to be very honest, and I want to s…”
PLG and enterprise sales must view themselves as channels, not competitors
“You have to be very deliberate around the points of intersection, and you have to make sure that you know, these organizations don't consider themselves as competition. Like, you know, it's one product, one company. It's just two, two channels of how we are se…”
Miro uses Jake Knapp's five-day design sprints for zero-to-one product initiatives
“Anytime we're trying to build a new experience, like one of the approach we want to take is like very quickly validate. That our original hypothesis you know, is that sound or not? And we are big fans of the design sprint framework, you know, so what Jake Knap…”
Miro runs product development through four stage gates from P-Strat to P2
“We have a product process that we follow, which starts with the P strad, which is a strategy, and then we go into P zero, which is you know, definition of the problem. Then we go into P one, which is definition of the solution. And then we go into P two, which…”
Miro uses a rolling six-month roadmap with tiered delivery precision targets
“And so what we do is we have a rolling six month roadmap that gets updated every three months. And the first three months of that, that roadmap, we have an 80% precision level, which means that 80% of the things that we claim to be on the roadmap will get done…”
Miro publishes its entire customer roadmap internally as an async TalkTrack board
“We actually enable our entire field organization using TalkTracks. So what happens is that we have our entire roadmap published out as a Miro board for enablement purposes, so that that's an artifact that is approved to be shown to a customer and what you will…”
Miro allocates twenty to forty percent of engineering capacity to architectural initiatives
“So I would say about 20 to 40% of the available capacity at any given time is either getting allocated to architectural initiatives.”
Miro allocates R&D resources using a 70/20/10 ratio across innovation horizons
“Horizon one business, which is what we are, you know, the thing that's delivering food on the table. Generally, there's about a 70% allocation of resources that we have to overtake. Then there is horizon two, which is an adjacent thing, you know, with the next…”
Miro accelerated growth by shifting from a free trial to freemium
“Early on in the journey you know, some of the features were presented on a trial basis. You know, and then later on, like sort of the model was evolved from a trial basis time limited to a premium model that further sort of accelerated, you know, the growth fo…”
Miro's product and engineering teams are anchored across three European hubs
“Our product organization is actually based in Europe and our go to market organization is is worldwide. And you know, so our, you know, product management team, our designers, our engineers are located across three different hubs in, in Europe.”
Miro employs approximately 1,800 people across 12 global hubs
“Give or take about 1800 employees at Miro globally across all of the 12 hubs.”
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 LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER | SVP & GM, Adobe | 1 | 24 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Lenny's Podcast → |