Varun Parmar
8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2023 by Varun Parmar · across every show →
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Apr 20, 2023
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…”
Apr 20, 2023
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…”
Apr 20, 2023
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…”
Apr 20, 2023 positive
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…”
Apr 20, 2023 positive
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…”
Apr 20, 2023 positive
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…”
Apr 20, 2023
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…”
Apr 20, 2023
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…”