Episode 125: Defining & Building New Features with Emily Tate

What features should you build next? Will your product be ever "done"? How to avoid "building yourself into the corner"? Our guest today is the awesome Emily Tate, US General Manager at Mind the Product. You'll learn how to prioritize new features, create roadmaps based on user research, and ignore "squeaky wheals" while focusing on truly important product work.

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Show Notes

• Mind the Product — the world's largest community of product people
• Pivotal Labs — Emily's previous place of work
• Episode 121: Managing Customer Feedback with Sofia Quintero
• Critical Thinking for Product Teams — a talk by Teresa Torres sharing her opportunity solution tree
• Before You Plan Your Product Roadmap — a post by Des Traynor about feature audits
• The Five Whys for Start-Ups — an article by Eric Ries
• Taming the Squeaky Wheel — Emily's article
• Mind the Product, ProdPad — great blogs to follow
• Product Roadmaps Relaunched — a book by C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan & Michael Connors
• Mind the Product events & local meetups
• The Daily Em — Emily's website
• Follow Emily on Twitter: @thedailyem

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