How is Product Done at Miro with their Product Lead, Farbod Saraf

In this episode with Farbod Saraf, you will learn:

• What is PAD about and how it can help you in product discovery
• How to effectively run product alignment meetings?

KEY DISCUSSION POINTS

[02:24] Farbod’s journey into Product

[04:20] What is a Product Alignment Document (PAD), why did you create it, and how did it come to be?

[08:50] What are the elements for a PAD?

[15:50] What are PAD meetings and what’s the purpose of them?

[23:13] What are the possible outcomes of each product review?

[30:00] How do you effectively run a PAD meeting?/what are some lessons learned?

[33:39] What sort of reaction have you been receiving from the community since you published the blog post?

ABOUT FARBOD SARAF

Farbod is a product lead at Miro. He’s currently focused on platformization of Miro to create an ecosystem of creators that builds apps and integrations on top of Miro. Prior to Miro, he worked as a product manager and group product manager at a wide range of startups and scale ups in different industries, including fintech, commerce, healthtech, mobility, etc.. Next to his work, Farbod has done a wide range of personal side projects in his free time and grew a bunch of different communities from scratch. One of his latest projects was to create a free reservation and guest registration service for restaurants and businesses during the pandemic. This service has been used by more than 500+ locations and 30K+ users across 4 countries.

LINKS

• https://blog.farbodsaraf.com/
• Twitter: @farbodsaraf
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farbodsaraf/

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Tagged as: Managing Up,  Team Leadership,  Stakeholder Management.