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0 pointsozim4d ago0 comments

Have been there, we got pushback from users and we had to back off with releases. Users hunted product owner with pitchforks and torches.

As dev team we were able to crank the speed even more and silly product people thought they are doing something good by demanding even more from us. But that was one of the instances where users were helpful :).

People use dozens of apps every day to do their work. Just think about how are you going to make time to give feedback to each of each.

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johnnyanmac3d ago

> Just think about how are you going to make time to give feedback to each of each.

That's pretty much solved by the size of the audiences. You won't give feedback on 12 apps, but 11 other people will probably do so on 11 different apps.

Of course, the issue with my domain is that there's plenty of feedback, and product owners just dismiss it. Burn down your entire portfolio to get that boosted shareholder value for the next earnings report.

ozimOP3d ago

And how do you solve that when you are one of those 11 apps when no one wants to talk to you because they have their work to do? Where you don’t have power to say that kind of thing.

Well by asking repeatedly of course but you just piss people off.

Have you ever given feedback to Atlassian, Google, Microsoft?

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