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Varun Parmar

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An inside look at how Miro builds product | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)

Apr 20, 20231h 25m

Guest: Varun Parmar - Chief Product Officer at Miro. Varun has an extensive background in product management, having previously served as CPO at Box, and brings deep insights into building and scaling product teams in competitive markets. Key Takeaways: Continuous Improvement Framework: Every product release either improves or worsens the product. This mindset helps maintain focus on delivering customer value and staying competitive. Empathy and Teamwork: Miro emphasizes empathy both internally and externally, ensuring that cross-functional teams work collaboratively and understand diverse perspectives. Product Development Process: Miro employs a hybrid structure with a focus on personas, using a rolling six-month roadmap with specific commitment levels to balance agility and strategic planning. Unique Cultural Practices: Miro's AMPED structure integrates analytics, marketing, product, engineering, and design, fostering a holistic approach to product development and accountability. Rapid Learning and Iteration: The company prioritizes speed to learn quickly from failures, advocating for being the first to hit the "brick wall" to gain insights faster than competitors. Topics Covered: Product development process, competitive strategy, team structure, empathy in product management, product marketing integration, growth strategies, balancing innovation and maintenance, cultural practices in product teams.

Notable Quotes

โ€œEvery single day, every single time somebody is pushing your code to production and you're releasing a feature or an enhancement, you are making the product better or you're making the product worse.โ€

product development

โ€œThe best work happens when we bring different diverse perspectives to the problem and then co-create the outcome that the customer is looking for.โ€

teamwork

โ€œIt's a lot of hard work to bring both of these organizations together and you have to be very deliberate around the points of intersection.โ€

collaboration