Des leads Intercom's R&D org and oversees its product strategy. He often speaks about product and growth strategies at conferences worldwide, including SaaStr, Web Summit, and The Next Web. He's also the host of the Intercom on Product podcast. Prior to Intercom he co-founded Exceptional and worked in UX design.
In episode seven of Intercom on Product, Des Traynor and Paul Adams discuss six key ingredients for product strategy and how to align them with company strategy.
Convincing potential users to sign up for your product isn’t easy. But what happens next is far more important – customer retention is the next frontier.
On this episode of Intercom on Product, we discuss the five inputs that guide us at Intercom; how to think about the relationship between inputs, outputs and outcomes; and how to frame projects as customer problems instead of business problems.
Des Traynor and Paul Adams discuss the principles we use to guide us as we build great product. Helping us to encode our successes and avoid mistakes, our principles are the foundations on which we build.
Des Traynor and Paul Adams discuss the value of holding product forums and end-to-end reviews as a way of getting alignment between multiple stakeholders in an R&D organization.
Welcome to our brand new podcast series, Intercom on Product, where Intercom co-founder Des Traynor and Intercom SVP of Product Paul Adams discuss their latest thoughts on how to build successful products
At its core, product design is about cost-benefit analysis, and it’s key to determine how useful a certain feature will be versus how hard is it to build. Here is a useful framework to help your analysis.
Product teams and sales teams need a way to collaborate on the product roadmap, because otherwise, you’re not listening to the potential market or answering their needs.