Interesting one. I might approach it by trying to understand it from the PM’s point of view, and see if there is an even better solution than Excel.
These are some of the Qs I’ll ask:
1. How do you use Excel to track bugs? (Trying to understand his/her workflow.)
2. How does Excel solve your problems? (Understand what s/he likes about Excel.)
3. What are some of the things you wish Excel can do better? (Understand pain point)
Part of this is also building trust, so the PM can see your workflow & use cases as well, and hopefully come to a conclusion that while Excel may work, it’s really not the best tool for the job due to manual data synchronization work, and maybe GH issue or JIRA would work better.
I’ve also seen PMs enjoying using Coda as a complement to GH/JIRA to get a better picture to project overview.
These are some of the Qs I’ll ask:
1. How do you use Excel to track bugs? (Trying to understand his/her workflow.)
2. How does Excel solve your problems? (Understand what s/he likes about Excel.)
3. What are some of the things you wish Excel can do better? (Understand pain point)
Part of this is also building trust, so the PM can see your workflow & use cases as well, and hopefully come to a conclusion that while Excel may work, it’s really not the best tool for the job due to manual data synchronization work, and maybe GH issue or JIRA would work better.
I’ve also seen PMs enjoying using Coda as a complement to GH/JIRA to get a better picture to project overview.