Turing Festival 2016 - Building Products, More Than Meets the Eye

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Building ProductsMore Than Meets The Eye

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Some Context

• SaaS• B2B• Enterprise Tool•We’re Not Perfect• Training Management

Software

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We Had a Problem

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Fast Growth + High Attrition + Difficult Product+ Botched Release + Technical Debt

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>20% Annual Churn by Revenue

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”You want a churn rate that is as low as

possible"

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“If you have a high churn (double digits) for your SaaS business, there’s something

fundamentally wrong with your product.”

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This is Hard

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Attrition Slide

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Attrition by Revenue (%)

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Common Prescriptions1. Simplify the Product2. Improve the Product3. A/B Testing4. More Feedback5. Better User Stories

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The Secret of The World’s Best Products

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Make Your Customers Successful

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What is Our Product?

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Training Management Software

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Make Customers SuccessfulMake Our Team SuccessfulMake Our Investors Successful

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Make People Successful

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Our Product is People

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I Have A Dream

Administrate

Our Dream

Build the Ultimate Human Organisation

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How?

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What Didn’t Change: Our Software (much)

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What We Did Change

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Communication

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Trust & Transparency

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Listened

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Invested

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What Happened?

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Revenue GrowthNegative Churn“We Believe in Administrate”

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I Believe

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Your Product is Your People

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Thanks!

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John Peeblesjjp@getadministrate.com

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