A lot of folks on this group are product managers. I'm curious to learn about your experience when it comes to working with the UI designers. Obviously,...
... or ... What is ... Markets, personas, and problems are owned by product management. UI is part of the design of the solution and thus should be owned by ...
... There's nothing instrinsicly wrong with having UI designers report to product managers. Then again, there's nothing intrinsicly wrong with having all...
I agree that Design should be part of engineering, but for slightly different reasons. The product design is one very important element of the success of the...
From my personal experience, I've encountered and successfully navigated both situations. In the first case, the UE group was created, and then asked to report...
Majeed, Based on other responses to your question, it seems that the location of the UI Team (UIT) is an open one. i.e. do they report to Engineering or...
http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html: "Hackers are perfectly capable of hearing the voice of the customer without a business person to amplify the signal for...
I want to thank every one who took the time to respond to my question. There were some very insightful points in the responses that I'll try and keep in mind...
There is a an important distinction here (after working on UI requirements for twenty years.) Architects design buildings, but construction contractors build...
... If you've had great success with this approach, good for you. I'd stop way short of agreeing that this is the One True Way (tm). I'd like to point out that...
Dear friends and colleagues, I'm writing to request your assistance in reviewing the draft version of a new book I'm writing on customer driven innovation. The...
Hello Luke, My name is Andrew Willis and I am a product manager for an enterprise software company in Virginia. The premise of your book is definitely ...
Dylan, Thanks. There are some good points in this article. I think the key paragaphs are near the bottom: "For developers," Schumacher says, "the process...
Reg, I have to admit, I found it funny. I believe it was first published in The Onion correct? As a product manager myself, I have to say, this is what happens...
Hi, Good solid article. Reiterates a lot of common themes discussed here before. http://www.strategy-business.com/press/sbkw2/sbkwarticle/sbkw050112?pg=all ...
An interesting article on disruptive innovation. Discuss two forms of disruption: bottom-up and top-down. http://www.strategy-business.com/article/05203?pg=all...
http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2005/05/evernote_option.html Note that the VC assumes it's Engineering who screwed things up, while one of the commenters...
Hi Folks - hope this finds you well. I'd be interested to hear peoples' views on migrating customers to new versions of products, particularly when we release...
Are you referring to a desire to end of life previous versions and get them on the latest version? Depending on the type of product you have, you might find it...
... Excellent timing coming on the heels of Apple's announcement! Although your question seems closer to the question of how Apple migrates developers than it...
Alan - I discuss this pretty extensively in my book Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions. One area in which I respectfully ...
I'm with Luke on this one. If you can establish a reasonable policy for the EOL timeframe of so customers can plan, you have a much easier time delivering the...
Luke, I'm not suggesting no strategy. I'm suggesting that where possible have people migrate because they want to and not because you force them to. I have...
We went through a significant platform transition for one of our biggest products (about 3,000 enterprise customers) and it required extensive planning across...
Mark - Sounds like we're in agreement. I recommend that your strategy include understanding the complexity of managing integrations. There are ways to engage...
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