Chandra Janakiraman
8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 26, 2025 by Chandra Janakiraman · across every show →
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Jan 26, 2025
Janakiraman: Strategy roadshows work best with 8 to 10 people
“There's different ways to do this, but the one that I feel is most effective is the roadshow where you have like about eight, eight to 10 people in each sort of session, so people feel more comfortable to ask questions. And it's more sort of like conversationa…”
Jan 26, 2025
Jan 26, 2025
Janakiraman: Include full criteria tables in strategy appendices for defensibility
“And in the appendix, you include the full table that you generated on day two of your strategy sprint. You include the full table in the appendix, including the criteria. That's going to be really important because most people are going to ask, like, why did y…”
Jan 26, 2025
Janakiraman: End strategy docs with explicit alignment questions for meetings
“And then, finally, you end with, you know, some kind of alignment questions. Like, hey, do these feel right? Like, you know, are there things we are missing? So that it creates that framework for alignment in the subsequent meetings.”
Jan 26, 2025 positive
Janakiraman: Strategy working groups require engineering, product, design, and data minimums
“The minimum quorum I would recommend is engineering product design and data because design in some ways represents both sort of product design and user research. So you do get the sort of the voice of the user from that perspective.”
Jan 26, 2025
Janakiraman: Senior leaders secretly harbor pet product ideas until directly asked
“A lot of leaders have these pet ideas. They just feel shy to share it because they don't want their team to think of them as micromanaging. They don't want their team, they want their teams to figure out the answer themselves. But then when you ask them, they …”
Jan 26, 2025
Janakiraman: Resourcing belongs in roadmapping, not the strategy phase
“So I actually don't recommend thinking about resources in the strategy phase, because what you're saying is these are the areas of focus. And the resourcing question becomes more relevant from a roadmapping standpoint, because then you say, okay, what percenta…”
Jan 26, 2025
Janakiraman: Strategy design sprints should create illustrative concepts, not final features
“The goal of the design sprint is not to sort of come up with Oh, these are the features we should build. That's not the purpose of the design sprint. The design sprint is to generate a lot of illustrative concepts that bring the strategy to life, because, you …”