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Happy Friday!
Just a quick post to answer the question we sometimes get from prospective customers:
Is your Product Management Software compatible with Mac?
As a Mac user myself, I’m happy answer this question in the affirmative. YES, our Accompa Product Management Software is 100% compatible with Mac! 🙂
Engineering teams at more and more companies are using some form of Agile development process. I’ve seen a lot of discussion on the internet on how Product Management (PM) teams can adapt to this Agile world.
PM teams at a lot of companies use our requirements software – so I also get questions from our customers about how best their product managers can work with their Agile development teams.
In this post, I’d like to share my evolving thoughts on this topic.
BTW – One of the questions that is often discussed on this topic is:
How can Product Management teams follow Agile process?
I believe this is the wrong question! I will explain why in this post too.
I often get the following question when chatting with friends and acquaintances who work at high-tech startups here in Silicon Valley:
Why can’t we manage requirements using bug trackers like Bugzilla and JIRA?
This is a great question, and my answer may surprise you – knowing that I work for Accompa, a company that makes a popular requirements management software!
Here’s my answer to this question… [Read more…]
I read a nice blog post on the Harvard Business Review website by Rob Johnson who worked with Steve Jobs to create the wildly successful Apple Stores. The following quote caught my eye:
So the challenge for retailers isn’t “how do we mimic the Apple Store” or any other store that seems like a good model. It’s a very different problem, one that’s conceptually similar to what Steve Jobs faced with the iPhone. He didn’t ask, “How do we build a phone that can achieve a two percent market share?” He asked, “How do we reinvent the telephone?” In the same way, retailers shouldn’t be asking, “How do we create a store that’s going to do $15 million a year?” They should be asking, “How do we reinvent the store to enrich our customers’ lives?” (emphasis mine)
This is a great point, and is especially important for product managers building high-tech products to embrace.
Here’s why… [Read more…]
I recently came across a blog post by The Cranky Product Manager about product-line complexity. It’s an entertaining post. More importantly, it makes good points regarding the pitfalls of complexity. In this post, I will share my thoughts on this.
Product and product line complexity happens when we add too many features or when we add overly complex features. Often this happens over time as a product “matures”. It can also happen because of lack of rigor when writing requirements. When it happens, both your customers and your company suffer.
Here is a short list of… [Read more…]
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