Why Prioritizing Problems Over Features Is the Answer with Tiffany Johnson

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“Often your merchants and your partners are trying to solve the same problem, they just might have a different idea on how to get there.”
– Tiffany Wear Johnson, Chief Product Officer at NMI

In this episode of Product Chats, Tiffany Wear Johnson, the Chief Product Officer of NMI and American Banker’s Most Influential Women in Payments (2022), joins us to discuss the complexities of product management in a B2B2C environment, the importance of focusing on problems rather than features, and the strategies used to manage competing priorities among different buyer personas.

Key Takeaways:
Takeaway 1: Transitioning from a reactive feature list roadmap to an outcome-based roadmap can help manage contention between different stakeholders by focusing on shared objectives.
Takeaway 2: Organizing product teams around ‘value streams’ rather than personas can help the team better understand the customer journey and prioritize tasks that have the most impact.
Takeaway 3: Data and storytelling are crucial tools for understanding product metrics and making informed decisions.

ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Tiffany Wear Johnson is the Chief Product Officer of NMI, a company that focuses on payment gateway technology. She’s been named one of the most influential women in payments in 2022 by American Banker and is Money 20/20 Rise Up Leadership Recipient. Tiffany has effectively managed multiple layers of customer relationships in the B2B2C space and has implemented approaches that have transformed product strategies at NMI.

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