Comments on: Prioritize the Right Ideas With a Transparent Product Management Process

By: Andrea Saez

Andrea Saez — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:18:29 +0000

In reply to Jacob. I'm always really impressed at people that can hack around Trello (or any other tool) and make it work, that's fantastic! We use Trello ourselves for our different teams to execute on things, while ProdPad remains our 'source of truth' so we can look back and understand outcomes and impact. The important thing is to allow everyone to understand why a decision was made, and how you will track the success behind that decision later on. Voting, unfortunately, doesn't provide any value.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:41:46 +0000

I always strive for our team to possess a shared understanding of what our options are and why we choose the ones we do. We are Trello ninjas – we sync a number of boards and cards and have a bunch of power-ups to emulate things like user impact score. We don’t vote, but we do discuss at length (sometimes ad nauseam) and almost always come to a consensus.

By: Andrea Saez

Andrea Saez — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:08:31 +0000

In reply to Janna Bastow. Thank you, Janna!

By: Janna Bastow

Janna Bastow — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:19:14 +0000

I love that this was the advice you shared – spot on! It speaks to one of the reasons I started building ProdPad in the first place: I needed to provide more transparency into my product management decisions, or else feel the pressure from sales and execs as to why certain ideas were selected over others. Once I had a working prototype of ProdPad and was able to show the workings behind why some ideas were making it on to the roadmap and others weren’t, the internal pressures were instantly dissolved and replaced with a more collaborative way of working.