Category: Getting Started

FAQ’s 1. Why do I need Chisel? As a Product Manager, you spend 60+ hours a month in busy work to fill the gaps your tools fall short of. Using these inadequate tools leads to wasted time and resources, endless meetings, delayed revenue potential and delayed customer adoption. We can stop this today with an…

Why Chisel  How Chisel can help you In this article: Over 90% of product managers use tools like spreadsheets, slide presentations, and Word documents to get their work done, and there isn’t an app to centralize all the data automatically from these tools. Customer feedback is spread across Slack, Intercom, Zendesk, spreadsheets, etc. Roadmaps are…

Create Your Product Hierarchy in Chisel This article covers: Note: Sub-feature or the Fourth level of the product hierarchy is only available in the Enterprise edition. When you step into your Chisel workspace for the first time, the first thing is to create the product hierarchy. This way, you ensure that your product and its features are in…

Best Practices for Using Chisel To Manage Your Products Well Chisel is a straightforward tool to craft amazing products. However, to get the most out of your Chisel experience, you must consider the following tips and tricks. This article covers: To become a Chisel pro and manage your products well throughout the product journey, you…

Learn How to Setup and Use a Kanban Board Now that you have features and components, it is important to be able to track their progress in a sprint.  One of the best tools to do this is a kanban board. A kanban board helps you see the status of a feature in a specific…

Learn How to Setup and Use Releases Now that you have features and components, it is important to be able to track their progress.  One such view for this is the release view. The release view helps you track and plan which features are going to be released alongside each other. The columns of the…

Create Your First Feature Once you create your first component, it is now time to go and add features to it. The features for a component are a list of the different tasks that are required to bring the epic back to light. Congratulations! You now have a product that has components and features! Related…

Create Your First Component Creating your first component is essential for getting acclimated to the Chisel workflow.    Components in Chisel are large segments of your product.  Another way to visualize them is by having a component for each of the user epic of your product. Once you have determined what the components for your product…

Setting Up Your First Product This article covers: Chisel’s goal is to help you focus on crafting amazing products. To do that, it is essential to set up your product the right way so you can be as productive as possible. Creating your first Component and Feature Note: To learn more about setting up your first…

Product Tour This article covers: Welcome to Chisel!  Chisel is a powerful product management tool that helps support a product manager in the three most important aspects of their job: Discovery If you want to understand what your customers are thinking, Chisel’s ‘Discovery‘ pillar helps you do exactly that. If you’re looking for a place…