Join members of the Salesforce Customer & Market Insights team, who want your help in reimagining how customers can better influence the Salesforce product roadmap. They'll get you up to speed on what's happening with the IdeaExchange, take you through the journey of an idea as it makes it way from conception to production, while soliciting your feedback on how to improve the experience. Come ready to leave your mark on how products get planned.
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4. The Road to IdeaExchange Reimagined (IDXr)
Who’s in the room?
● Who attended (or viewed) the True to
the Core session at Dreamforce ‘18?
● Who has voted for an idea on the
IdeaExchange?
● Who has submitted an idea on the
IdeaExchange?
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6. IdeaExchange: Always-On Voting
We’ve accomplished a lot together in 12+ years
1.7 million
votes cast
3 million
points retired
2,500+ features
delivered
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7. IdeaExchange Pain Points
What we’ve heard about the current IdeaExchange
● Salesforce doesn’t develop enough core features
● Product Managers aren’t responding to top ideas
● There’s a lack of transparency around what Salesforce is building
● IdeaExchange technology is outdated
:
Votes are unlimited
Ideas vary in “size”
Closing the loop
Key Issues
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13. Prioritization List Building
Top IdeaExchange Ideas
Top ideas not ready for
development are updated
with a comment
Top ideas ready for
development go on the
Prioritization list
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32. Group Discussions
Instructions
1. Organize into groups by topic
(four topics to be announced)
2. Spend 10 minutes discussing questions for
your topic
3. Nominate a spokesperson to summarize,
in 2 minutes, your group’s answers
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33. Known
Issues
What concepts here
should we apply to the
Known Issues site?
Roadmap
Information
How can we better
communicate product
roadmap information?
How can we create a
better better homepage
experience?
Meet a
Product Manager
If you have more
chances to meet a
product mgr., what
would you want to do?
IdeaExchange
Homepage
IdeaExchange and Beyond
#shapeSalesforceProducts
38. Known
Issues
What concepts here
should we apply to the
Known Issues site?
Roadmap
Information
How can we better
communicate product
roadmap information?
How can we create a
better better homepage
experience?
Meet a
Product Manager
If you have more
chances to meet a
product mgr., what
would you want to do?
IdeaExchange
Homepage
IdeaExchange and Beyond
#shapeSalesforceProducts
39. Join the IdeaExchange
Reimagined Chatter Group
https://sfdc.co/IDXrGroup
Participate in Prioritization 9 Sept. – 22 Sept.
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40.
41. Status Clean-Up
● Open
● Up for Prioritization
● In Development
● In Pilot / Beta
● Delivered (with tags to identify release)
● Closed
○ Not Planned
○ Never
○ Low Activity
○ Retired
Editor's Notes
[Jenny] + [Scott]
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[Jenny]
Demographics of those attending / each time there’s an Astro, as shown - we’ll be asking for input
[Jenny]
Brief overview of existing IDX for those who aren’t as familiar
Oriented around customer success
Learned along the way how important it is to listen to our customers.
2004 - Began collecting feedback via cases
Our brilliant idea for listening to you was service cloud and cases
you logged it, i want this and this and this.
we had human beings counting, we have 12 of this and 50 of this. that didn't scale well
2006 - launched IdeaExchange
Suggest and vote on new product features you want us to build
[Jenny]
Current IDX accomplishments over the 12+ years it has existed
Informed our product strategy
Success = retired 3M points and over 2,000 ideas.
Something to be proud of.
[Jenny]
you gave us feedback on the idea exchange and we've listened.
If votes are unlimited - if you can vote for everything, nothing is important. doesn't reflect true priorities.
Ideas vary in size. One idea may be size S and another may be XL. some ideas could be done by 1 engineer in 1 release, they're simple and easy and we should just do them. but there are other ideas that are multi-year projects, but one vote counts the same for both of of those.
There's no good closing the loop process right now - there's an idea that's been on there since the dawn of time. but we're not good at saying no. we don't tell you why. we need to fix that.
[Jenny]
Now that we’ve done the quick overview, let’s look at this from the life of an idea
[Jenny]
Two customers to serve: the Trailblazer Community and Salesforce Product Managers
Improve functionality and usability for both
Bring the two closer together
[Scott]
New IdeaExchange brings together community voting and product planning process
Roadmap
Dreamforce = Prioritization delivery
Post-Dreamforce = Voting delivery
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Spend the next 10 minutes discussing and come up with your 2 minute pitch
What concepts here should we apply to the Known Issues site?
How can we better communicate product roadmap information?
Once an idea is submitted, others can support it by upvoting it
We’re considering removing the ability to downvote
QUESTION: how would you feel if you could only upvote an idea?
If you have more chances to meet a product mgr., what would you want to do?
[Jenny]
Spend the next 10 minutes discussing and come up with your 2 minute pitch
Open, Delivered, Closed (and a few others) - is simple better?