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What is your process for launching new features/products?

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  1. Patty Medberry
    Patty Medberry

    Infor Senior Director, Product Marketing | Formerly Microsoft • 3y

    The launch process is almost always the same. We brief our sellers, distributors, partners, and then launch to the external market, in that order, every single time. First briefing sellers, distributors, and partners ensures that they are not caught off guard by the announcement. It enables them to support customers and their questions on launch day and allows them to plan their strategy on how to use the launch to capture revenue and mindshare. Typically, analysts and press are briefed under em ...Read More

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  2. Victoria Chernova
    Victoria Chernova

    OpenAI Product Marketing • 3y

    The first step is creating a tiering system so you can prioritize features & products being released. Variables could be based on customer impact (good and bad—think change management), business priorities, revenue potential, brand/awareness potential, etc. For Tier 1 & 2 products, we’ve built out a workback schedule in Asana with dates. Typically this process starts 3-4 months before the agreed upon launch date. I would think through your workback schedule for a few key deliverables own ...Read More

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  3. Aurelia Solomon
    Aurelia Solomon

    Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing • 3y

    Great question! First, I shedule a kick off meeting. In this meeting... I outline what product launch is, why we do it, and how it works at this company. I do this every time because there are always new people on your team who might not be familiar with product launch and it's important to level set.  I then outline the roles and responsibilties of being on the launch team. I ask each DRI if they will commit to these or if there is a DRI on their team they want to take their place instead.  I p ...Read More

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