Today we have a special guest, David Subar. David is the Founder and Managing Partner of Interna. A firm that helps technology companies make better products faster. And David has worked with organizations of various sizes from small six member startups to large companies such as Pluto, which was sold to Viacom. Lynda.com, which was sold to LinkedIn and the Walt Disney Company. So today we're going to discuss how to beat your roadmapping culture. What does that mean? Well, every company has a culture around roadmapping and how they make decisions about roadmaps, which features get prioritized, which strategies to pursue, etc. And sometimes those cultures are explicit, and sometimes they're not. But every company has one. So what could you do to improve your roadmapping culture at your company?

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Key moments from today's topic on how you would beat your roadmapping culture: 

00:00 Intro to David Subar and how Product Teams get pulled looking at only two different perspectives: Taking every idea from their CEO or just only being data driven 

07:26 Using Jobs-to-be-Done to bring market and customer data into roadmapping decisions

10:20 What are signs that a company has a broken roadmap culture?

16:37 Creating customer value 

22:52 Building a product for market needs

28:45 Validating a feature by emotion can be dangerous

34:47 David talks about his experience with Lynda.com and the CEO being customer focused

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