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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

  Not everything that’s reported as a bug is a bug – or should be fixed.  Customers  Customers and support teams often identify things that don’t work the way they like… tagged as bugs even if the system is behaving as intended. (Not Bug fixers work in the same codeline as core engineers.  We

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How to Decrease Beta Testing Costs by 40%

Centercode

When you’re managing beta and delta testing, you’re tasked with providing accurate, useful insights to several different stakeholders — reporting and prioritizing issues for Engineering and QA, feature acceptance for Product Management, contextualizing insights for UX, even testimonials for Marketing. Beta and Delta Managers.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

Support needs installation guides, training sessions, FAQs, bug reporting categories. That includes fully tested software, documentation, pricing/packaging, part numbers, marketing assets, targeted lead gen, competitive intelligence, support training, problem escalation, partner/channel materials, etc.

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GDPR: Who Should be Your Data Protection Officer?

Mind the Product

A DPO must be allowed to operate independently and report to the board. For example, if the DPO finds that the VP of marketing needs to remove data from their machine they should be able ask them to do this – and if they don’t, be able to report them to the board without fear of reprisal.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

The senior manager has P&L (Profit and Loss) responsibility for the entire product line, including Product Management (for this product line), Customer Support, Training, etc. We integrated customer support into our demos, so they understood what their challenges would be when we released. We weren’t perfect.

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Guide to Choosing the Best Customer Education Platform for SaaS

Userpilot

But before then, the features below are a must-have for any customer training software: Contextual in-app guidance. Multimedia content support. Training progress tracking and analytics. Supplemental live training options. Multi-language support and localization. Native dashboard analytics and reporting.

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Why Your Entire Company Should Talk with Customers Weekly

Amplitude

Led to the new reporting features and multiple product fixes inspired by insights. Support training and onboarding. Create and conduct more customized onboarding and training experiences. Generate ideas and insights that will help create more informed business solutions. Observe them using your product, if relevant.