Maple's one source of truth for product decisions

Maple's problem was never a shortage of ideas. It was the opposite: good ideas scattered across docs, Slack, Jira tickets, and people's heads, with no shared place to compare them. Join Brent Johnson, Director of Product Management at Maple, and Axel Sooriah, Product Management Evangelist at Atlassian, for the honest story of how Maple turned one pilot into the way every product team works. We'll dig into Brent's actual setup and month by month rollout schedule, so you leave with actionable guidance you can apply right away.

  • Brent Johnson

    Director of Product Management, Maple

  • Axel Sooriah

    제품 매니저, Atlassian

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Before Jira Product Discovery, Maple wasn't short on ideas. Customer asks, internal requests, and strategic bets lived everywhere: in docs, in Slack, in tickets, and in people's heads. Prioritization meant hunting for ideas instead of weighing them, and work often jumped to delivery before it was shaped. Maple needed one source of truth for product decisions, and today it's how every product team captures opportunities, weighs them against strategy, and decides what to build.

Brent Johnson sits down with Axel Sooriah from the Jira Product Discovery team for a candid, peer-to-peer look at how Maple got the whole org on board: his setup, his month by month schedule, the team routines that made it stick, and how he won product managers over first.

You'll learn:

  • What was really breaking before Jira Product Discovery (too many good ideas in too many places) and the trigger that started the pilot.

  • How adoption actually spread: solving a visible pain first, winning over product managers, and tying it to the rituals teams already had.

  • What to standardize for alignment (core fields, statuses, leadership views) and where to leave teams room to shape their own.

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  • Brent Johnson

    Director of Product Management, Maple

    Brent Johnson

    Director of Product Management, Maple

    Brent is a product leader with 12+ years of experience building software across healthtech, travel, and ecommerce. He has guided teams from early-stage startups to scale, driving several M&A deals along the way. He currently leads Product Management, AI, and UX/UI initiatives at Maple, Canada's virtual care platform, where he's spoken on panels about turning product strategy into measurable, organization-wide impact.

  • Axel Sooriah

    제품 매니저, Atlassian

    Axel Sooriah

    제품 매니저, Atlassian

    Axel은 Atlassian의 제품 관리 에반젤리스트로서 팀이 Jira Product Discovery를 사용하여 새로운 작업 방식을 실현하도록 돕고 있습니다. 이전에는 Contentsquare, Openclassrooms 및 Welcome to the Jungle과 같은 회사에서 최신 제품 관리 관행에 대한 팀 코칭을 담당했습니다. 코칭을 시작하기 전에는 11:FS, Verisure 및 Barclays와 같은 회사에서 제품 리더십 역할을 맡았습니다. 까다로운 미식가인 Axel은 셰프가 되기 위해 모든 것을 포기할 뻔했지만 차선책에 투자하기로 결심했습니다. 그것은 바로 Axel’s Bento입니다.