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Peter F.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Love it"
4/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

It's very intuitive and can be easily used fresh out of the box. The software is updated and improves over time and I have noticed this over the past few years of using the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

I wish there were ways to restrict user access to different product groups. I run a product team that works across a number of different products, often with external stakeholders. We like to give these stakeholders access to ProdPad so that they can add new ideas and feedback, however, we currently can't restrict their access to only see one product and feedback from their domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Georgina Munn of ProdPad

Hey Peter,

Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review 😊

I'm pleased to hear that you've noticed the improvements over the years and that you're enjoying using ProdPad πŸš€ with our weekly releases, we're always updating and improving as we go!

Thank you for the feedback on user access permissions - this is always a tricky one as folks always want to manage things in different ways but I do appreciate where you're coming from. I'll add your feedback to our own ProdPad - if you're happy to, please email me at hello@prodpad.com with your details so we can keep you in the loop on any work in relation to this. It would also be great to chat to understand how you'd like to manage this!

Have you considered, or are you using, our Customer Feedback Portal to source feedback from your stakeholders (either internal or external)? This would be linked to a specific product and be added straight into ProdPad for your product team to review. They're super easy to set up, and you can even display specific Ideas on the portal for feedback. We also have integrations with tools like Slack so that your team can share Feedback and Ideas in the spaces they already are. I'd be more than happy to chat you through the options if you get in touch but I'll also share a link to our Help Center.

Thanks again! πŸ™Œ

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Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
UL
Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Prodpad provides a logical thread from direct customer feedback up to product strategy"
4/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

I like that Prodpad links customer directly directly to ideas, initiatives and OKRs, making sure that customer feedback is available where decisions on a product are made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

From a User Research perspective, synthesizing customer feedback is more complex than what Prodpad currently has to offer. Looking forward to new developments in the area! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Georgina Munn of ProdPad

Thanks for sharing your experience using ProdPad! Great to hear that ProdPad is acting as that single source of truth for your team and connecting you with customers πŸ₯³

We're definitely working on developments in this area, thank you for sharing your feedback. We have a new feature just released in beta to process feedback using AI. It's designed to give you a summary, indicate the sentiment and the key points at the click of a button - I'll drop the help article link below. We'd love to hear your thoughts on this and whether it helps your processes.

Thanks again πŸ˜ƒ

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Verified User in Market Research
UM
Verified User in Market Research
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"UX designer"
2.5/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

I think the feedback structure of feedback > idea, is great structure compared to the likes of jira which i think is really behind the times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

Some areas for growth

β€’ Idea cannot be sorted easily via impact and effort, which make prioritisiation very, very hard. we currentyl export to a csv in order todo this.

β€’it would be nice if we had a more visual view to create ideas. It would be cool to lay out all our feedback and add them to ideas we create on the fly in a visual manner like a miro board.

β€’ Add a better method or mutiple method of prioritising like R.I.C.E

β€’Custom status for ideas other than archived or backlog etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Georgina Munn of ProdPad

Hey! Thank you for leaving us a review, we really appreciate it 😁

Great to hear that you're enjoying using ProdPad to streamline your feedback > ideas > roadmap process. We love to see it!

Thank you for sharing your ideas on how we can improve as well. I'll share some thoughts from the team below:

β€’ In terms of sorting ideas by impact and effort, have you checked out our Chart view in Ideas? This gives a visual representation of all of our Ideas on an Impact/Effort scale. You can also view and filter your Ideas in the List view by impact and effort. It would be great to understand more about your current process for prioritization to see how you're managing this.

β€’ Love the idea of a more visual view to create ideas - I will add this as feedback for our product team to check out!

β€’ In terms of prioritization methods, we have actually got a Confidence score for the C in R.I.C.E. (currently in beta), but we don't allow for a R.I.C.E. like weighted scoring algorithm - and here's why! Capturing the scores is a good thing (which is why we have Impact, Effort, Confidence, all of which can be captured, sorted by, and used to view Ideas visually in ProdPad), but R.I.C.E. traditionally calls for these scores to be mashed together in an algorithm to get a 'prioritization score' of sorts, and the problem with this is that, if you take two assumptions (like your best guess at what impact is, and what effort is), and you multiply or divide them, the end result is an even fuzzier assumption that loses the context of the source of the original score. This is further exacerbated when people take the resulting scores and compare them against each other, and use them to set a final priority of work to be done... when in fact, because those original scores were just estimations anyways, the accuracy of the final numbers can be a ways off, meaning the proposed order suggested by the R.I.C.E. scoring algorithm is almost certainly off.

So teams end up tweaking their algorithm to match what they think is right, which is a lot of wasted time they could be doing literally anything else, or they end up building the wrong stuff because the spreadsheet said so. Something we don't want! That's our approach, I'd love to get your take on this.

β€’ You may have seen that we have a customizable Ideas workflow but Backlog and Archived are set. What kind of statuses would you like to see? I'll also share a help article from our Head of Product on how she uses emojis to further customize statuses.

I'd love to chat with you about your feedback in more detail to better understand how you're using ProdPad - if you're happy to do so, please send me a note on hello@prodpad.com.

Thanks again 😁

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James C.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A really helpful tool for product managers"
4.5/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

One of the main attractions for me is the feedback feature which allows the product team to directly hear the voice of their customers or the users of their product. Being able to link this directly to the ideas which are eventually executed in development as well as the higher level initiatives in the roadmap means that there is a "golden thread" that runs throughout the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

Our product is internal and B2B so our users are also our colleagues. A common question I hear from them is how to attach screenshots or attachments to their feedback because it would help them to express themselves better. This can be particularly valuable when people are communicating in English as their second language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Georgina Munn of ProdPad

Hi James, thank you so much for sharing your experience using ProdPad. It's great to hear that feedback is such an integral part of your product process and having an impact on your roadmap planning πŸš€ I'd love to pick up on the conversation around Jira so I will send you an email.

Thank you for your feedback on attaching screenshots or images to feedback, I can see the value in this. It's not currently possible via the customer feedback portal, but we do have an Idea for this - so I will add your feedback! If colleagues add feedback directly in ProdPad, it's possible to attach images (though I appreciate that folks aren't always logging into ProdPad to share feedback).

Thanks again! 😊

Richard K.
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Richard K.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Get a grip of your portfolio!"
4/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

The roadmap view whiich can be organised by product line and OKRs allows me to easily plan out how incremental value will be discovered and delivered. Grouping ideas into initiatives makes forward resource planning very effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

External integrations are less slick than a fully integrated suite of tools. Mapping of workflow satges between Prodpad and Jira software for example could be made more intuitive but that's not something that needs attention every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Georgina Munn of ProdPad

Hi Richard, thank you for taking the time to leave us a review (love the headline, by the way)! πŸ™Œ

Amazing to hear that you're a fan of our roadmapping approach.Thank you for your feedback on the ease of using integrations - the Jira/ProdPad mapping experience is something we're aware of and would like to improve, particularly for our new beta Full Sync integration. I will share this with the team. Thanks again!

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It has revolutionised our feedback/idea management"
4/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

We now have a place to manage all our ideas without them being lost in Jira. Duplicates are identified as you are writing which saves wasted time.

We've not been using the system for long but we're already seeing the benefits and several issues have been identified by implementing the feedback widget in our solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

It does feel like there is some duplication when creating feedback, which is linked to an idea, which is then linked to an initiative on the roadmap. However, I do think that this is possibly down to not using it in the way it was designed to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Georgina Munn of ProdPad

Hey there, thank you for your review - it's awesome to hear that you're already seeing the benefits of using ProdPad to manage your ideas and feedback πŸ₯³

Appreciate you sharing your thoughts on the hierarchy of feedback --> ideas --> initiatives. Have you had a chance to chat with anyone in our team yet? I'd love to catch up and talk this through - drop me a message on hello@prodpad.com 😁

I'll also link to one of our help articles that talks about each of these aspects in case that helps.

Thanks again!

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Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"a comprehensive product management tool with focus on ideas and roadmap"
4.5/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

Easy to use interface and very nice roadmap view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

Not having backwards compatibility from Jira. Meaning Jira Epics and Userstories are not synced with Prodpad. This already done by some other tools like ProductBoard and makes life much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Georgina Munn of ProdPad

Hey there,

Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review! Amazing to see that ProdPad is helping you to collaborate more with your stakeholders 🀝 and that you like the roadmap view (we like it, too!). As inventors of the Now, Next, Later roadmap, we've written a lot about why we believe working to a timeline roadmap is less efficient and provides less value for your customers (I'll link a blog post) . However, we know that in some cases it may be appropriate to add a deadline, for example, in line with a change in legislation. You could do this using tags, for example.

I'm sorry to see you've had some trouble with our Jira integration. We've just released a number of Jira updates that answer your exact problem - the two way content sync from Jira back to ProdPad, along with an import feature from Jira to ProdPad. Send me an email on help@prodpad.com so that we can talk you through this and get you set up ASAP. We'd love to hear your feedback on it.

Thanks again!

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Cat C.
Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Helpful Roadmapping & Planning for Product Managers"
4/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

Ability to sync with JIRA and the "Now, Next, Later" buckets to quickly summarize priorities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

Encountered some issues syncing with JIRA so wish that was more streamlined/clear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Georgina Munn of ProdPad

Hi Cat,

Thanks so much for taking the time to leave us a review, we appreciate it. It's good to hear that ProdPad is helping you in both tracking your current work as well as planning ahead for the future πŸ₯³

In terms of JIRA, thanks for sharing your experience here. The good news is that we've literally just released a whole host of updates to strengthen and improve our integration πŸ™Œ

You can now opt for a two way content and status sync integration as well as importing your backlog into ProdPad. I'd love to chat you through the changes so I'll drop you a note 😊

Thanks again for your time leaving a review!

Roxie B.
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Roxie B.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Prodpad is a helpful well thought out tool"
5/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

Prodpad makes it really easy to organise ourselves as a team. You can link customer feedback to ideas, and add notes and user stories, set up a workflow, push ideas straight through to Jira for the dev team to pick up and link your ideas to your roadmap. There is an area for objectoves which makes it easy to show which areas of your roadmap link to which objectives. Its really handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

The only thing I don't like is that sometimes it is tricky to move user stories around if you want them in a diiferent order. The ability to do it is there its just not so easy. I move a story and it will be in.a different place to where I want it.

It would also be great if Prodpad could offer user anyalitics too to make it easy to attach data to ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fleur Sykes of ProdPad

Hi Roxie, thanks for the awesome review! Really glad you're seeing all the various element's value and how they all piece together. I personally love the OKRs too. Regarding the user story, re-ordering sounds like a little bug, would you mind reaching out to hello@prodpad.com where the support team will be able to get that checked out. Thanks again, Fleur

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"One of the better Product Management Suites"
4.5/5
What do you like best about ProdPad?

It truly is simple to use and that's my favorite part about it. Most of the other tools on the market are repleat with features: toggles, tags, switches, integrations and all the other bells and whistles to have a complete product management platform but fall short on ease of use and simplicity. Prodpad gives you plenty to get the job done and has extended the capabilies into natural "what's next" types of items rather than being a frankenstein of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProdPad?

The organization of a Roadmap by Initiative, each initiative has one or many Ideas and each Idea having one to many underlying User Stories that can push into another work tracking platform is pretty slick. However, when it comes to Ideas without an accompanying Initiative and being able to keep them organized, especially as I have many of my users entering new and duplicate ideas, it quickly becomes the wild west. Deduping ideas is something I've been contemplating...like what if Prodpad prompted a user "Hey, this idea sounds a lot like this existing idea, would you like to update the existing one" would sure be great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Georgina Munn of ProdPad

Hello! Thank you for your fab review 😊

We're happy to hear that you find ProdPad simple to use and that you're bringing your whole company into your product processes - that's exactly what we built ProdPad to do πŸ₯³

Thanks for your feedback, too. There can definitely be cases where duplicate ideas pop up. Have you had a chance to check out DotBot? DotBot scans your backlog and suggests connections between your ideas and feedback as well as spotting duplicates for you. Let me know on help@prodpad.com if you have any problems with this, and whether it solves this challenge for you.

Thanks again πŸ˜ƒ

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