Articles

4 de May, 2008

Bezos on Innovation

In a recent interview published in Business Week site, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com’s founder talks about innovation at Amazon. It is worth reading it all but I […]
19 de April, 2008

Featuritis x experience

As people normally say, a picture is worth a thousand words. In Kathy Sierra‘s Featuritis Curve there are some words, but the message from the whole […]
6 de April, 2008

From 500 to 50,000 to 5,000,000 (users, accounts,…)

When developing a new product sometimes the team working on it get the question, or even formulate the question about what should we do if we […]
22 de March, 2008

When a product is ready for launch? Part II

At the same time that we need to spend on non-recurring development cost in order to avoid the recurring operational cost, we need to be aware […]
16 de March, 2008

Product launched. Now what?

The launch of a product is a big step, but it is not the end of the product manager’s work related to that product. When you […]
13 de March, 2008

When a product is ready for launch?

Release an internet product early but with a few known bugs? Or wait until the product is perfect? When is the right time in the development […]
8 de March, 2008

The rewrite syndrome

It’s not unusual to hear the phrase “stop, we need to rewrite this” at some point in a project. There are even entire projects dedicated to […]
5 de March, 2008

Learning from competitors

Despite of LocaWeb’s Blog service, I decided to use Blogger so I could test someone else’s blog service. Knowing the competitors is essential for any product […]
1 de March, 2008

We’ll never get our product right the first time!

And we’ll never get our product right the next time either. When we start the development of a product, we have an idea of its features […]