Your product is "too confusing" (and it's costing you sales)


Your sales team just lost a $100k deal because the prospect said your product was 'too confusing' and now your engineers are baffled. They built the features exactly as requested. Your team didn't fail to build...they were given the wrong thing to build.

Fluent PM Playbook #19: The Customer Clarity Fix

As a communication expert, I see this all the time. Teams build features instead of solutions. They get so focused on what they are building, they simply forget who they are building it for!

This isn't an engineering problem...it's a translation problem.

My playbook for this is simple:

I force the team to pass the 'Customer Clarity Test' before a single line of code is written.

We stop building 'user stories' like this one here: "As a user, I want to be able to configure my admin settings." (This is vague and also uses tech jargon).

We translate it into a real human story like this: "As a busy sales manager, I need to add a new team member to the platform in under 30 seconds so I can get them on a call."

One is a vague task. The other is a specific and measurable business outcome.

Stop letting your team build features for a faceless user. Force your team to build for a specific customer with a specific problem.

Clarity for your team = clarity for your customer.

Clarity for your customer = more sales.


You're burning money on "wasted work." You feel the friction, but you can't measure the cost.

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Justin K. Peterson, MBA, PSM

Stop Managing Chaos. Start Shipping. Most PMs just track tasks. I build the playbooks that bridge C-Suite strategy with tech execution. The Fluent PM Playbook is where I give you those exact plays. For free.

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