Insights

Product Type: Mobile Web Application
User Base: 10K
Company: Bell Canada

The Product:
Initiated in 2019, the Bell insights app was a supplementary product for managers to identify coaching opportunities and wins for their team.

The Role:

Serving as a product manager, I facilitated the development of the app from a mock view to a functioning beta product over an 8 month period. To achieve this, I worked with the UX Design team, Developers, and Business Intelligence teams that would serve as a coaching product for the various management teams in Bell.

Core Features:
  • Customization - users can tailor their data feeds
  • Pre-populated coaching logs
  • Cross compatibilty with various reporting teams
What I Did:
  • Hosted weekly virtuals meetings, clarified scope, implemented changes, prioritized deliverables, got stakeholder acceptance, monitored status for performance and budget. Planned WBS schedule.
  • Developed algorithm to rank key Insights based on feedback system and frequency on type of Insights users utilized most.
  • Identified and developed key Insights via SQL/SAS to feed platform.
  • Worked with various reporting teams to establish data structure to feed their data into mobile platform.
  • Implemented Jira and Confluence into engineering and product teams for the Insights app. Assisted on facilitating knowledge transfer.
  • Created internal feedback system for users to highlight / report functionality of app.
Metrics:
  • Usage of app reduced coaching research time by 90%.
  • Time to type up coaching log on discussion reduced to a minute with talk-to-text functionality and pre-populated data.
  • Users able to increase coaching discussions monthly by 40% due to app's benefits.
Key Takeaways:
  • As a product manager, understood the power of facilitating beta testers and using feedback to better functionality and design of app.
  • How to work with UX and Design resources
  • How to best manage a remote engineering team when the individuals are hard to reach and lack progress
  • As an analyst, learnt how to write optimized queries and schedule jobs