How can you influence the immediate product roadmap if the pre-launch customer research revealed to you that the MVP would not add significant value to your customers?
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB • 5y
The first time this happens at your company (assuming the MVP is already built), you have to let the product launch and (likely) fail in the market. There's likely too mu...
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Square Product Lead, Payments • 5y
This happens a lot more than you might think. The Product team looks at the market and decides to build a feature. The feature is rolled out as an early alpha and custome...
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Altruist VP of Marketing • 5y
Great question and tough but interesting situation. Ideally this research is not coming in right before launch and you have time to adjust. I would want to understand if ...
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Box Head of Product Marketing, AI & Platform | Formerly Google Gemini • 3y
For your sake, I'd hope that if your research shows that MVP doesnt equate to a value add for your customers, that causes your product team to make a full stop and push. ...
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Shapiro+Raj SVP, Technology Group • 2y
Oh man, the most impactful thing an organization can do is accept bad news. Think of how lucky you are. If you can stop the train, you've only wasted a lot of money on pr...
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