Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Successful and popular products are rarely born in moments of inspiration, nor are they likely to just pop into the minds of entrepreneurs or product managers. More often, great products are the result of a rigorous and effective product discovery process.

Information matters. But what information team members have and when they get it is just as important as the information itself. In the world of Agile product management, information is best funneled to teams through sprint planning, an essential Agile productivity tool. If sprint planning is not used – and product owners or scrum masters don’t take the time to schedule upcoming work properly – team members might misunderstand what they must focus on and when.

Does your product team sit around with little work to do, wondering what you’re going to do next quarter? Yeah, I didn’t think so. If there’s one thing that product teams all have in common is that they all suffer from the opposite problem – too many things to do.

As a product manager, you never suffer from a lack of things to do. Sometimes when you have so many things you could do, it’s difficult to pick the things you should do. You know you need to focus on outcomes that will help customers solve their problems, and benefit your company as well, but how can you identify those features?

As you get ready to start working on a new product or you’re looking to shake things up with how your team works, you have a lot of options to pick from. Your team wants some structure in their methodology, but not so much that they’re stifled.

Before taking a look forward at our strategy for 2022, we would like to summarize this year and mark the major milestones we have taken in our journey to make Craft.io the best Product Management software solution in the market.

Multitasking is the bane of efficiency whereas multidimensional planning is the root of success. Research shows that multitasking can reduce productivity by up to 40%. Juggling multiple projects and tasks can be jarring and leave designers and developers burned out.

The customer may not always be right, but customer feedback is always valuable. Organizations have understood the value of customer feedback long before the advent of the internet, which of course has made surveying customers far easier. Indeed, if it’s worth mailing survey ballots to customers, surely you should consider doing it over the internet as well.

Craft.io, the all-in-one product management platform, today announced an $8 million Series A funding round led by JAL Ventures, with participation from new investor Fosun RZ Capital, as well as existing investors Inimiti and Ron Zuckerman.