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How do you build a team that can both handle day to day customer issues and keep time for innovation/discovery?

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  1. Natalia Baryshnikova

    Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 1y

    It's easy for teams to over-index on day to day customer issues and lose sight of innovation; the opposite is unlikely. If your team has customer focus figured out (if not, tackle that first), there are three things that have worked well for my teams to keep the balance: Every member of the team (especially junior!) understands and can speak to the big picture product strategy and market Intentional and structured approach to include customers into discovery (vs letting them always drive the age ...Read More

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  2. Bryan Dunn
    Bryan Dunn

    Nextiva Head of Product, Developer Ecosystem | Formerly VP Product at Localytics, Crayon, Redox, CoreStory • 3mo

    This is one of the hardest balancing acts in product, and the answer isn't time management. It's team design and operating principles. Start by hiring people who focus on problems, not solutions. Great squads spend more time defining the problem than jumping to solutions. When your team habitually boils customer issues back to the root cause or job to be done, they naturally surface innovation opportunities inside the support work. A customer escalation about a broken workflow isn't just a fire ...Read More

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