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Antonin J. (they/them) • Edited

At my job, our main salesperson gets on our morning standup once a week and we talk all about sales. The important parts (and the questions the devs ask) are:

  1. what are potential clients looking for in our application that's not there?
  2. what's a feature we've developed that wows clients?
  3. what features have we developed that resulted in sales? Did feature X get that one wary client over to our side?
  4. how much estimated revenue did project X result in?
  5. what is confusing to potential clients about the product? How can we improve this?
  6. Does our competitor have something that we don't?
  7. Clients that don't want to switch (or that do want to switch) from a competitor, why? What brought them or is not bringing them over?

Etc. basically, we all want to see the impact of our work and how we can maximize our own efforts to multiply that impact.

Our salesperson has been amazing especially at communicating with us. These discussions make you really care about UX because we get that feedback. Not just from our salesperson who has to demo our app, but from potential clients, new clients, and even existing clients.

Hope this helps!