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How to Create Better Products With Much Less of a Backlog

Johanna Rothman

How can you prevent an overstuffed backlog, roadmap, or all those great ideas from interrupting your team from finishing its work? Instead of backlog or roadmap, start to call these ideas “options.” That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post. Those feedback loops.)

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Navigating Challenges in Product-Led vs. Sales-Led Strategies for B2B SaaS Product Management

The Product Coalition

But it is something, and that area will 100% successfully influence your Roadmap” Andre Albuquerque post in Linkedin Understanding the nuances of this strategic face-off is crucial for product teams. In both cases, there should be a proper high-level product vision and a product roadmap. Every company has an area that “leads”.

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Breaking The Walls Between Business and Agile Teams

The Product Coalition

Management and business folk therefore still live very much in “waterfall world” where big projects are delivered according to well-defined, largely immutable strategies, roadmaps and project plans. On one side of the dividing gap they’re expected to ship products and features according to the roadmap, not unlike project managers.

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Why is Idea Management Important?

ProductPlan

Closing the feedback loop for every idea and letting them know the status indicates that each one is taken seriously, and individuals will continue to provide innovative ideas. Product managers already ingest, parse, and make sense of feedback from numerous channels , so it’s a natural fit. A Precursor to Roadmapping.

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Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein on riding the wave of planning software for support

Intercom, Inc.

Despite having started her career in banking and finance, when Natasha moved to Bulb, a renewable energy supply company based in the UK, she encountered the challenges of scaling a support team firsthand. The market has laid it out, your competitors have laid it out, or these expectations from the customer dictate your roadmap.

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Top 7 Reasons For Customer Churn in SaaS and Tips to Address Them

Userpilot

Include an always-on feedback widget in your knowledge base so customers can report technical issues when they occur. #6: 6: A negative churn can happen when a customer’s bank transaction fails or their credit card expires. This is called closing the feedback loop. Create a knowledge base in Userpilot.

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How to Collect Qualitative Feedback in SaaS

Userpilot

You can collect qualitative data through feedback surveys, NPS surveys , in-app surveys, heatmaps, session recordings, customer reviews, public roadmaps, and exit surveys. Use tags to analyze your qualitative feedback and segment users better. Looking to collect and analyze feedback? What is qualitative feedback?