Product Agility

Winning with Feedback: Building Products People Love (with Ivett Ördög)

Jan 9, 2025

Ivett Ördög, a seasoned engineer and product leader known for her Lean Poker workshop, shares transformative insights on leveraging feedback in product development. She discusses the critical impact of early and frequent user feedback on shaping successful products. Ivett emphasizes building trust through effective feedback loops and how feature adoption rates should be the key success metric. She also introduces gamified learning with Lean Poker to enhance team collaboration and rapid experimentation, making it easier for teams to adapt and thrive.

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Ivett Ördög

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Quick takeaways

Early and frequent feedback fosters better product decisions, enhancing team responsiveness to user needs and improving satisfaction.

Building trust with users through consistent engagement and timely updates is crucial for product relevance and adoption rates.

Deep dives

The Limitations of AI in User Understanding

AI offers various capabilities, but it cannot effectively understand user needs and contexts. This limitation highlights the necessity for human insight in product development, as understanding user requirements is essential for creating valuable products. While AI can handle data analysis, the nuances of human behavior, preferences, and emotional connections require a personal touch that technology currently lacks. Essentially, the most crucial aspect of product design remains the need for human engagement to truly resonate with users.

Intro

2min

From Coding to Customer Insights

8min

The Importance of Belonging and Engagement in Community Interaction

2min

Embracing User Behavior for Product Improvement

2min

Cultivating Experimentation in Product Development

27min

Exploring Lean Poker: Upcoming Online Events and Engagement Opportunities

3min

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In this first episode of 2025, the Product Agility Podcast is back with a bang! Ben Maynard welcomes Ivett Ördög, a seasoned engineer, product leader, and creator of the innovative Lean Poker workshop, to explore the transformative power of feedback in building products that people truly love. With over three decades of coding experience and a unique blend of leadership roles, Ivett brings practical insights and strategies to inspire both engineers and product managers to move faster, learn smarter, and collaborate better.

If you’ve ever struggled with aligning your team’s efforts with customer needs or felt stuck in the endless cycle of development without clear outcomes, this episode is a treasure trove of actionable ideas.

Key Takeaways:

From Feedback to Impact: How early and frequent feedback can shape better product decisions.
Building Trust with Users: The importance of creating a feedback loop that empowers both teams and customers.
Adoption as a Metric: Why feature adoption rates are the ultimate indicator of product success.
Gamifying Learning: How Lean Poker accelerates team learning through rapid experimentation and iteration.

Practical Tools & Methods:

Feedback Loops: Building trust by acting quickly on user feedback.
Lean Poker Workshop: An immersive, gamified workshop for mastering incremental delivery and experimentation.
Metrics that Matter: Identifying and tracking adoption rates to maximize value.

Links and Resources:

Join a Lean Poker Workshop: https://www.leanpoker.org/event
Connect with Ivett Ördög on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivett-%C3%B6rd%C3%B6g-03aa9035/
Subscribe to Ivett’s YouTube Channel, Next Increment: https://www.youtube.com/@NextIncrement

Start the new year with a fresh perspective on feedback and delivery! Whether you’re a product manager, engineer, or leader, this episode provides actionable insights to help you create products that truly resonate with users. The Product Agility Podcast is back, and it’s better than ever! Don’t miss it!

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.

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