What is your weekly strategy for balancing active development with user feedback calls?

It’s so easy to get caught up in the constant grind of squashing bugs and pushing new feature updates.

Recently taking time off from dev work to run user interviews saved us weeks of wasted effort turns out some of our recent additions weren't solving any real pain points.

Knowing when to stop building and start listening is a tough balance to strike.

How do you schedule your week so user conversations don't get pushed aside by dev tasks?