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Pragmatic Institute Case Study

Medium Enterprise Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise financial services company is based on an August 2020 survey of Pragmatic Institute customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“I now have a process to manage the backlog and incoming ideas. I have strategies in my skillset vs. what I stated with which was zero clue.”

“I feel equipped to do my job well! I know I have a network to reach out to with questions if I get stuck.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Pragmatic Institute:

  • Took training courses with Pragmatic Marketing for the following reasons:
    • Increase strategic focus
    • Gain clarity in roles and responsibilities
  • Experienced the following challenges with the corresponding frequency:
    • delays in product launches: extremely often
    • roadmaps that were guided by opinions and not market facts: extremely often
    • delievered features that weren’t being used by customers: somewhat often
    • important features that were dropped from each new release: uncommon
    • revenue goals that were not being hit: uncommon
    • deals that were being heavily discounted: somewhat often

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Pragmatic Institute that the surveyed company uses:

  • Employees have taken training classes in the following areas:
    • Foundations
    • Focus
    • Build
    • Market
    • Launch
  • Had the following groups attend the Pragmatic Marketing training:
    • Entire product management team
  • Has offered Pragmatic Marketing training to its employees for 6+ years.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Pragmatic Institute:

  • Has been able to realize the following benefits by taking the courses:
    • Increase the number of releases in a given year
    • Gain a better understanding of product roles within their organization
    • Increased confidence in the roadmap
  • Estimates their level of improvement to be as follows for each of the corresponding areas since taking Pragmatic Marketing training:
    • product/feature usage: 0-24%
    • reduced time to market: 0-24%
    • reduced rework: 0-24%
    • product sales: 0-24%
    • customer satisfaction/NPS: 50-74%
    • their understanding of the market and its relevant problems: 50-74%




About This Data

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