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julie_pinto
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July 17, 2019

Keeping a Pulse on Newly Released Features

  • July 17, 2019
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A few weeks ago, we did a soft launch of a new flagship feature. I made (you guessed it) a custom dashboard to keep some tabs on it and determine if users were organically discovering it.

Earlier this week, we presented the feature at a partner's conference for their users. It occurred to me that I could take the same custom dashboard and add a widget filtering down to that partner to see our conference presentation's impact on usage.

The blue arrows indicate when we presented the feature. As you can see, there's a clear jump in feature usage right away!



On another note, a use case for a feature-focused custom dashboard would be to do the following:

  • Release new feature
  • Create A/B testing groups (this would probably have to be done on an account level, as you can't filter by segment)
  • Create custom dashboard with widgets measuring the usage of new features, with each widget filtering down to a testing group
  • Let the feature run to measure organic usage and discovery
  • Release an engagement highlighting the new feature to group A, while group B gets nothing
  • Review the custom dashboard to see the impact of an engagement on feature usage compared to those who received no engagement
I'm hoping to turn this into an opportunity to create an engagement to do a stronger launch of the feature.

That's all for now! 🙂

    7 replies

    harshibanka
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
    July 17, 2019
    Again, fantastic ideas and posts! keep it coming, you rock!

    Harshi (pronounced like the Hershey's chocolate); PLG and Digital CS Evangelist
    julie_pinto
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    July 18, 2019
    Will do! I'm always looking for new opportunities to leverage GPX 🙂

    julie_pinto
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    October 10, 2019
    @harshibanka @link_black @mickey

    FYI, as a follow up: I shared the above dashboards with our development team before their quarterly planning. I was able to demonstrate that, despite releasing an awesome new flagship feature, our users were simply not finding it on their own. After seeing the data, they just confirmed today at our QBR that they will be making this feature more available to our users!

    We intend to create similar dashboards when we release significant features. Just wanted to say thank you for an awesome product!

    harshibanka
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
    October 10, 2019
    This is soooo cool @julie_pinto , just gave me an idea for a new post from this! Rockstar!

    Harshi (pronounced like the Hershey's chocolate); PLG and Digital CS Evangelist
    julie_pinto
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    October 10, 2019
    That's awesome!! 🙂 Having the GPX data to back up our feature request helped bump it way up the priority list.

    harshibanka
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
    October 10, 2019
    Yes, totally! My idea is: How CS Teams second their Feature Requests to Product Teams :)

    Harshi (pronounced like the Hershey's chocolate); PLG and Digital CS Evangelist
    julie_pinto
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    October 10, 2019