PITA 010
Some tips for No-Code App development:
https://www.glideapps.com/
Webflow
Landbot
Zapier
Bubble
(Ode to an) Anonymous Kangaroo
TOPIC 1:
When you already have a product but growth is slow, how do you decide if you should continue with that product vs. if you should change the market, problem or solution?
Validate market - have you hit all addressable?
Cross-sell something new to your existing customers
Look at adjacent markets
Validate acquisition model - sales team vs self-acquisition/freemium
Review pricing structure - simplify the hell out of it
Go back to discovery with existing customers
Figure out which experiments to run - for Market, Problem or Solution, etc
TOPIC 2:
Have you used the services of a product coach? If so, what were the key factors that led you to choose one over the other?
Yes and yes
Someone who has expertise that seems relevant
Find alignment - talk to a few people, most do a trial session
Some coaches are tactical, some general leadership, some product-specific, etc
Competency measurement: Building Better Product People - Sebastian Sabouné on The Product Experience
Ask people who have coaches now, or been coached
https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/company/mentoring-club , / The Mentoring Club
TOPIC 3:
Best ways for mentoring/training someone who’s been made a PM without necessarily wanting to be one
Focus on what they want out of their career, philosophy (empathy, etc) of product thinking rather than specific skills
Link their drivers/motivations to the position’s product objectives
Break down the tasks to something that slightly exceeds their current capabilities to provide a challenge/learning
The dimensions I use to evaluate PMs:
- Controlling fear of missing out
- Communication (in all its details encompassing listening & empathy)
- Leadership
- technical knowledge (meaning craft details of PM-ing)
- Balancing Ops with Strategy (i.e. daily operational stuff with product vision/planning/strategy/roadmap etc.)
TOPIC 4:
Experiences of asynchronous user research (e.g. interviewing folk on Slack)
Ask people to record what they do
Diary studies
Use a chatbot to create a conversation path and scale it up - but concerns about not being able to go into exploring interesting things
In-product feedback/prompts
TOPIC 5:
Customer/User research: what is NOT working for you?
Recruitment hard - people are dealing with shit
Less experienced researchers, more bias, poor quality
Too much pitch to be interviewed - blunt recruiting
Finding enough people to participate
Hard to understand expectations vs reality