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9 Things You First Head of Product Should Do in Their First 30 Days

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Q: Where should a new product owner (PO) focus in their first 30 days?

My strong advice is speak with data. And that may mean at first — not speaking too much! 🙂

Here’s my suggestion for the first 30 days:

  • Visit as many customers as you can. Try to visit at least 10 in person.
  • Talk to as many customers as you can. Zoom with another 10–20.
  • Listen in on as many sales calls as you can. Also listen to as many Chorus’s and Gong’s as you can.
  • Listen in on as many customer success calls as you can. Hopefully, there are any!!
  • Answer 100 support tickets. Do at least 4–5 stints on support. Ideally, more. Trust me. Do it.
  • Start a weekly webinar for existing customers AND prospects — and listen. Ask for open-ended questions at the end.
  • Ask the sales team to force rank their Top 10 feature requests.
  • Ask the dev team to force rank their Top 10 pieces of technical debt.
  • Publish your product roadmap. This will force folks to align.

Visit and Listen.

Then, and only then, provide real opinions on where the product should go.

Once you have data to back those opinions up.

Not just “Here’s How We Did It At My Last Company.”

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Published on February 20, 2020

Source: https://www.saastr.com/where-should-a-new-product-owner-focus-in-their-first-30-days/

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