Hey everyone! This week at the Guru Deep Dive, we learned tips and tricks for product enablement with Guru.
Shoutout to our product experts and speakers
Guru for Product Enablement
During this Deep Dive we covered how you can use Guru to support communication along the product lifecycle. We define product enablement as the end-to-end product development and delivery process.
Planning and development
Goal: Keep everyone aligned with rapidly evolving details across multiple departments.
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Research, requirements, project specs, and project tracking
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Product team → design team → engineering team, continuous feedback loop
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Template: Active Project Resources and External Links
Release prep
Goal: Ensure all teams feel confident about the upcoming feature release in their respective roles.
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Thoroughly test and prepare for release while empowering customer-facing teams with expertise on the feature.
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Simultaneous QA with product development team and enablement for customer-facing teams.
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Template: Feature Breakdown Card (Release Note)
Enablement & Ongoing Support
Goal: Provide customer-facing teams with real-time feature knowledge that supports them directly in their workflow.
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Empower customer-facing teams (like Sales and Support) with instant access to updated product details.
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Create an ongoing resource for FAQs and additional customer talking points.
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Template by
@Shona Fenner : Feature Documentation and Index
Troubleshooting & FAQ
Goal: Provide customer-facing teams with information they need to help customers troubleshoot issues when a product doesn’t work as it’s supposed to.
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@brookethebatman : Product Feature Support Troubleshooting
Pro Tips:
- Root product messaging and knowledge in empathy for the end user
- Create strong processes along the product lifecycle so teammates know what to expect
- Leverage templates, knowledge alerts and announcements in internal communication channels
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Ramp’s troubleshooting and FAQs process runs through Slack which allows team to create Guru Cards quickly
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Break down feature cards into feature descriptions and marketing messaging
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Detail steps of the user journey into separate Cards to help people to jump to specific steps and increase search ability
Martin Evans, Product Owner at Enerflo (24:14)
- Be intentional about how you craft cards; invest in creating the right documentation now
- Rally team members to contribute product knowledge during “all hands on deck” events - at Enerflo, they called theirs “Guru BUILD Days”
- Maintain updated information with verification feature - Enerflo is on a 3 month verification cycle
Continue the conversation!
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