Link of the Day: Kano tutorial via Mountain Goat Software
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An intriguing and nonintuitive aspect of customer satisfaction is that sometimes the feature that provides the most satisfaction is one that customers didn’t know they wanted until they saw it.
For how long have you been prioritising features without taking customer satisfaction into consideration? Kano analysis provides a great way to understand which are the mandatory features you need in your product just to play the game, which increase satisfaction in a linear fashion, and which are the features that will delight and excite your customers.
Take a read here: I Didn’t Know I Needed That! | Mountain Goat Software.
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The Practitioner's Guide To Product Management
by Jock Busuttil
“This is a great book for Product Managers or those considering a career in Product Management.”
— Lyndsay Denton
Jock Busuttil is a freelance head of product, product management coach and author. He has spent over two decades working with technology companies to improve their product management practices, from startups to multinationals. In 2012 Jock founded Product People Limited, which provides product management consultancy, coaching and training. Its clients include BBC, University of Cambridge, Ometria, Prolific and the UK’s Ministry of Justice and Government Digital Service (GDS). Jock holds a master’s degree in Classics from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the popular book The Practitioner’s Guide To Product Management, which was published in January 2015 by Grand Central Publishing in the US and Piatkus in the UK. He writes the blog I Manage Products and weekly product management newsletter PRODUCTHEAD. You can find him on Mastodon, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Quick addition to this one which you might be interested in: there’s a stealth-mode startup called Kano.io which looks like it will provide a helpful cloud tool for running Kano analysis. Take a look: https://kano.io/?lrRef=Y0ZLH