Do you have a social strategy for your product? “The world is becoming more social!” “users want to interact with peers!” “it’s the new age of web 2.o!” – if these topics have been circulating the watercooler, beware. Before jumping in and adding that “person” entity, implementing a “feed”, allowing people to put each other [...]
Posts Tagged ‘development’
When to takeoff with a new product
Posted in Practical product management, product management, tagged backward compatibility, development, product management on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This post is instigated by Adobe discontinuing mobile Flash. With this move, Adobe did one of the bravest, most difficult moves a company can do: venturing away from a safe market and into an uncharted future. It is also clear this move affects every one – it will dictate how video and all other rich [...]
Is Facebook in “coding hell”? – when to rewrite your code from scratch
Posted in Management, Practical product management, tagged development, facebook, Integrated development environment, Management, MySQL, Programming, Software on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It happens constantly, all over the world. An application is out there, usually making money, with an unassuming roadmap of features. Suddenly, there’s a commotion in the engineering dept. A dev rushes in: “the code is useless! we can’t find our way in this spaghetti soup! we need to rewrite!” It’s a constant temptation, in [...]
The missing feature (or, the partial feature)
Posted in mis-features, product management, tagged content, development, focus, kindle, product management on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It happens often: you wait for a specific capability and one day your vendor supplies it. Excited, you rush to the product, to test it out.. the feature is there! But — you can’t really use it. Something crucial is missing. That self-explanatory next step is simply not there. It is frustrating to miss out on [...]
Form vs. function and silly features
Posted in product management, tagged development, lauch, marketing, product launch, product management, usability on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Recently, my company launched a new service. Part of developing the service was a long process of crafting a UI which is usable and clearly understood. However, I insisted on one feature which provides no clear usability enhancement: a 3D carousel to select a virtual machine template from a list. A big hug goes out [...]
Let your product manager in on the business decisions
Posted in Management, roadmap, tagged development, Management, planning, product management, product roadmap on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You can empower your product team and eventually create better products. In many organizations, preparing the product roadmap involves feature-level discussions: a basket of features is presented, along with estimated costs for each, and a decision comprised of the main new features is reached. These types of discussions severely limit your product managements ability to [...]
