Product Plans

Goal

Our product planning and execution strategy is designed to align with the company's strategic objectives, marketing goals, and feedback from our customers. Planning is continuous with quarterly check-ins.

It’s the EPD teams – product, engineering, and design together – that have the expertise, context and pride of ownership to be best suited to propose the highest impact work that fits those goals. And they’re the team that can do the correct eng scoping.

Planning Process

Planning is continuous, guided by the company's strategic objectives, product strategy, marketing goals, feedback from our customers, especially GTM-tracked product gaps, and internal needs (e.g., scalability, reliability, performance, security). Product owns prioritization and utilizes input from other stakeholders to ensure none of these categories are neglected.

Work items from these input sources are divided into three categories:

New work items are triaged into one of these three categories (see the FAQ for details).

Types of projects

Checkin meetings

Engineering Planning Check-Ins occur roughly quarterly, with adjustments as needed based on company cadence. This approach focuses on meaningful discussions rather than arbitrary timeframes, reducing planning overhead while maintaining clarity and alignment.

For each team, there will be a meeting with the Head of Product, Head of Engineering, the EM, and any relevant PMs (TLs optional).

Preparation

Head of Product shares high level goals for the company.