Comments for Silly Features - Uri Gilad's Blog http://sillyfeatures.com About identifying silly decisions - and product management Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Facebook and real estate – a marketing adventure by NabeWise – online neighborhood assessment « Startups – Classified & Ads « Startups « Startupeando http://sillyfeatures.com/2012/01/29/facebook-and-real-estate-a-marketing-adventure/#comment-137 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:17:37 +0000 http://sillyfeatures.com/?p=522#comment-137 [...] Facebook and real estate – a marketing adventure (sillyfeatures.com) [...]

]]> Comment on Facebook and real estate – a marketing adventure by NabeWise – clickable neighborhood assessment « Startups – Classified & Ads « Startups « Startupeando http://sillyfeatures.com/2012/01/29/facebook-and-real-estate-a-marketing-adventure/#comment-136 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:16:35 +0000 http://sillyfeatures.com/?p=522#comment-136 [...] Facebook and real estate – a marketing adventure (sillyfeatures.com) [...]

]]> Comment on The product owner by John Quincy http://sillyfeatures.com/2011/09/25/the-product-owner/#comment-125 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:00:14 +0000 http://sillyfeatures.com/?p=463#comment-125 Pretty good article. I get worried when organizations go full force with ‘agile’ without even knowing what it is or even if they should go that route — and the PO is one of the most misunderstood roles.

You might find this video amusing on how some companies choose agile:

John

]]> Comment on The product owner by A Product Manager? Who exactly this guy is…? « Seeingfuture http://sillyfeatures.com/2011/09/25/the-product-owner/#comment-124 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:30:28 +0000 http://sillyfeatures.com/?p=463#comment-124 [...] The product owner (sillyfeatures.com) Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

]]> Comment on The hidden costs of the installer package by eram http://sillyfeatures.com/2011/10/08/the-hidden-costs-of-the-installer-package/#comment-121 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:22:00 +0000 http://sillyfeatures.com/?p=475#comment-121 interesting post.
a couple of additional points:
on the SAAS provide side the decision is actually to part from having a one-version-product to having a per-customer-version. On the development side this also has a large overhead as critical bugs, and even features, will have to be delivered to specific versions and customers – a lot of branching and merging overhead will result.
having 1-2 such customers is usually relatively easy on the operational side. but once you grow to about 5 such customers you’ll have to create a full back-office system to support the operations – so there’s going to be a big jump in expenses before your see the return: a 24/7 support team, support case management system, a build system with proper versioning and smooth upgrades, a technical integration person, post-sales engineers… and managers to run the operation. You may need the operation to be run from another country so add the office space, travelling etc.
This has a potential of becoming a major cause for premature scaling for a startup.

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]]> Comment on Deep in user feedback by Tools of the trade (and other software) « Silly Features – Uri Gilad's Blog http://sillyfeatures.com/2011/03/06/deep-in-user-feedback/#comment-102 Sun, 08 May 2011 13:24:14 +0000 http://sillyfeatures.com/?p=331#comment-102 [...] and editing documents, and excel – with it’s pivot tables – it an invaluable data analysis tool. Microsoft have earned my respect with [...]

]]> Comment on The scientific product manager – numbers and your customers by Customers – who are these people? « Silly Features – Uri Gilad's Blog http://sillyfeatures.com/2011/03/14/the-scientific-product-manager-numbers-and-your-customers/#comment-101 Wed, 04 May 2011 14:48:59 +0000 http://sillyfeatures.com/?p=346#comment-101 [...] I have talked about how to track customers, measure them and grade them. [...]

]]> Comment on Keeping ahead – tracking trends in customer feedback by Customers – who are these people? « Silly Features – Uri Gilad's Blog http://sillyfeatures.com/2011/04/19/keeping-ahead-tracking-trends-in-customer-feedback/#comment-100 Wed, 04 May 2011 14:48:54 +0000 http://sillyfeatures.com/?p=367#comment-100 [...] have talked about how to track customers, measure them and grade [...]

]]> Comment on The scientific product manager II – what to measure by Customers – who are these people? « Silly Features – Uri Gilad's Blog http://sillyfeatures.com/2011/04/08/the-scientific-product-manager-ii-what-to-measure/#comment-99 Wed, 04 May 2011 14:48:40 +0000 http://sillyfeatures.com/?p=353#comment-99 [...] have talked about how to track customers, measure them and grade [...]

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