How I built a production validation in regulated env

Most PMs treat production environments as someone else's domain. You design, specify, hand off and wait. This talk challenges that assumption.

I'll show how I built a lightweight validation environment with real URLs and real analytics, no engineering dependency, and used it to run smoke tests that changed actual roadmap decisions. Including one result that changed the roadmap.

Practical, replicable, and battle-tested in a regulated organization where security said yes.