Tag: Feedback

We all know biggest risk in the product development is building a WRONG product. There are numerous examples from history to see why some products did not see light of the day or big success.

Recently, I came across a product team which took MVP approach and built a product which saw very good initial success. But with time product was unable to keep the users engaged and convert initial success to revenue to keep it floating.

Some of the questions the team started to deliberate were:

Is this a good product idea but a targeting wrong market segment….? OR
We are in right user segment but not a right product/idea – the one which does not solve user problems completely.

In our last post, we discussed about how to break performance measures into team and individual measures to bring more team behavior orientations into appraisals.

Today, let’s talk about addressing other two issues: feedback frequency and how to make feedback effective.

Agile thinking is based on building frequent feedback loops within your teams and organization. Few examples of frequent feedback loops are:

Sprint demos every couple of weeks, to get product feedback
Sprint retros to get process and tool feedback
TDD/BDD/continuos integration to get code feedback
Continuous testing to get quality feedback. Check-out our new launched 2 day extensive workshop on agile way of testing

Lean Product Development: Dealing with Business Emergency

Appraisals in an Agile Company – Part 2