GitHub Cut Semester Roadmap Planning From Weeks to Two Hours
Elizabeth Pemeril · How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO · Nov 20, 2024 · at 7:15
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Elizabeth Pemeril, CRO at GitHub, explains how centralizing customer feedback into GitHub issues dramatically accelerated leadership sprint planning.
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“Our semester planning process, which are these sprints where we decide what we're going to work on, used to be this Weeks long thing of passing documents around, lots of like really strongly held opinion, loosely backed by data. Now we pull up our project list and at our last offsite, it took about two hours to go through the list and say, what are we doing? What are we not doing and why?”
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