ProdPad

What differentiates ProdPad from other similar products?

ProdPad defined the category and at every step has been focused on helping product teams achieve better outcomes. The ProdPad team is invested in our success.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The visibility it gives to the product process, and how we are able to link our outcomes to our initiatives and communicate that. The ability to make public roadmaps and customer feedback portals that connects directly to your product backlog is great.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I don't dislike anything that's in the product, there are some additional things I'd like to see in it and some improvements but there is a process for sharing feedback with the team, and with their public roadmap, we can see what problems they are focused on.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

ProdPad is really easy to get up and running, starts to deliver value almost straight away and helps you to be successful. It is designed to help you build a product process that helps you focus on the right things. You'd be buying a product from a team that really values their customers and are responsive and flexible.

What differentiates ProdPad from other similar products?

It incorporates best practices in product management and strategy better than other PdM software. The feature set, while it may seem limited and lack customization, is well-thought through to provide the most value. The quality and knowledge of the support team is extremely high and helps you improve the way you build products.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

How it connects every key element of the product hierarchy, from your portfolio of products, strategy & OKRs, problems to solve, experiments to run, and customer feedback to justify the why. And this is all done in an elegant, visual way on the publishable roadmaps.

What do you dislike most about this product?

For a startup like ours trying to encourage & follow product best practices, the cost is a little high.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Don't compare feature-to-feature with other similar products; instead, ask yourself what outcomes you need to achieve with a product management tool and how well they align with best practices. Take advantage of the free roadmap clinics that they offer, because you'll be able to get 1-on-1 help from product experts to better understand how to improve your processes, your people, and your product.

What differentiates ProdPad from other similar products?

ProdPad is opinionated software. It has a model of working with ideas, feedback and initiatives that is very strong, but requires you to work in the way that the product suggests to get best value from it. If your processes are different from the way ProdPad thinks you should work, then you'll initially fail to get the value but once it 'clicks' with your workflow, it's extremely value-adding. Compared with Aha! it's more lightweight and less configurable, but that turns out to be to your advantage in achieving high agreement on how to work together.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

There's a lot! The visual roadmap is the best feature, this really helps us to answer the question "What are you focused on now, next and later? And what ideas do you have for achieving each thing that you are focusing on?" Integrations with other systems are generally pretty easy to configure, although there's a limited number available and the rest requires a Zapier subscription to easily set up. Above all, the product team is very willing to take feedback and use it to further grow the product. Some of my suggestions have made it into the product. They are really nice people to deal with.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The usability of the product is not the best. It's a bit unintuitive and the experience seems to require a lot more clicking around than is necessary. This puts in place a hurdle to adoption. The product is optimised for small organisations, the enterprise-level support is nowhere close to the level provided by large vendors like Microsoft or Atlassian. It's especially tricky to work across multiple accounts. And ProdPad assumes that you already have a product set up; it doesn't provide functionality that

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would absolutely recommend ProdPad, especially to product leaders who are looking to shift from a deliverable-focused feature team structure to an empowered outcome-focused product team structure.