Every report request travelled from the client through their CSM into engineering. The planned scope would not have fixed that — I widened it and carried the initiative to release.
PandaDoc had no reporting. Medium and large clients couldn’t get insights into their document pipeline without manual intervention from Customer Success or engineering.
I joined mid-project and re-synthesized the existing research, which showed the planned scope — a visual dashboard for analysts — would not serve the people who actually needed the data. I rewrote the PRD, defined the functionality, designed the interface, built out the components, and carried the initiative through to release.