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In last week’s post, I outlined why drastically changing the user interface (UI) is not a good idea.
We received some good feedback on Twitter about this (paraphrased):
Companies such as Facebook are doing drastic UI changes all the time. If it’s good enough for Facebook, isn’t it good enough for most companies?
This is a great question! In this week’s post, I’d like to share my thoughts on this… [Read more…]
This seems to be a hot trend nowadays at many software companies: Drastically changing the user interface (UI).
In fact, this happened recently to several of the cloud software applications we use internally at our company.
There are many reasons why companies do such major changes: Modernizing the UI, making it prettier, making it more social, making it look more like Facebook/Google+/etc.
While most of these goals are well-intentioned, I believe a lot of the companies are forgetting one important thing…
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I’m writing this post spurred by 2 things:
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” – Benjamin Franklin
As some of you know, I regularly speak with Product Management executives at mid-to-large companies as a part of my job at Accompa.
About 7 weeks ago, I had a very interesting conversation with the VP of Product Management at a large tech company in California. Let us call him Steve (not his real name, I’m anonymizing it per his request).
Steve’s story is a cautionary tale for Product Management (PM) teams everywhere. While I’ve heard “lighter” versions of this story before, this story is very stark & so is good to learn from. Without further ado, here’s the story… [Read more…]
Le sigh!
This past Sunday, I had an interesting debate with a friend of my mine whom I’ll refer to as “Peter” in this article. Mainly because that is his real name.
Peter is the VP of R&D for a cloud-software company in southern California.
He told me (and I’m paraphrasing):
“Product Managers and Business Analysts are dying roles, because with Agile/Scrum there is no need for these roles any more. Soon these roles will be eliminated from most of the software companies.”
This statement annoyed the heck out of me. Hence the sigh at the beginning of this post.
Peter and I had a lively (but short) debate, we had to cut it short because we both have day jobs – which seep into weekends! I told him I will make a couple of blog posts to explain my take on this.
So, here is the first one for you, Peter! As I explained in [Read more…]
A question our team sometimes gets from our prospective customers is:
Can Accompa software help me implement Pragmatic Marketing Framework™?
I will provide the answer to this question in this blog post.
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