6. 6
19Y | Experience
10Y | Engineer
9Y | Product Management
PM Community evangelist
GHCI 2019 Design and Product track reviewer
Women in Tech founder@SGGSC
SAP Test Data Migration
Server
xCP
QuickBooks
Payroll
TurboTax
KYC Products
16. Know your customer needs - better
than they do themselves
Build Customer Empathy
Get out of your office and go into your customer’s space
Have a conversation with the customer
Observe, Interview and Immerse
Discover “unknown unknown” of the customer
Identify the “most” important problem statement
17. Eat your own dog food
Use your own products in the company
- Use IE browser to build IE
- Using GitHub to build GitHub
18. Most dissatisfied customers are the
best sources
Speak to the dissatisfied customers
Understand why customers are leaving your product
Check with NPS Survey
19. Data driven customer insights
Listen to Voice of Customers:
reviews
social media
customer support
product feedback
User behavior
Invest in the tools and programs to translate these into meaningful insights
20. Know the landscape, Disruptive
Thinking
Competitive Analysis
Conduct periodic market research
Identify whitespaces
Understand the local flavor
Use technology as a differentiator
Keep it simple
New business modal
22. Discover
Personally meet your customers in their space – Go deep in the conversation
Prepare the structure to your conversation beforehand
Observe them using the product. Have separate people for interview and
observer.
Ask open ended question – Why, How, What
Practice active Listening (90-10 rule)
Outside-in perspective – Market information
Engage with extreme users
Prototype research, Usability research studies
23. Synthesize Insights
Look for patterns and lead to insights. Trust your gut
Savor surprises
Empathy Map
User Journey
Define Customer Benefit
Frame Problem Statement
25. Don’ts for building Customer Empathy
Have only proxies for research
Doing comparisons
Disregarding situation as unimportant
Sugarcoat
Solving the problem