Product Development – Rolling out the patch
Filed Under Development, Issues, Patch | Posted on September 28, 2008
The previous post had thoughts on what are some of the conditions under which a software patch is typically required. Once the decision has been made to make a patch, there are a set of activities that are needed to be done. A patch typically is a miniature version of a complete product development cycle, [...]
Product Development – Doing a patcher or a minor release
Filed Under Development, Minor Release, Patch, Product | Posted on September 25, 2008
When doing the planning for a new version of the product (not typically applicable when creating a new product), it sometimes becomes necessary to consider the case of doing a patcher or a minor release (also known as dot release). Picture this scenario – your product development team has already started planning for the features [...]
Product Development – Product Requirements Planning – Template
Filed Under Document, MRD, PRD, Product, Requirements, Template | Posted on September 22, 2008
In the previous 2 posts, I have been talking about the process leading to a presentation, right at the beginning of the project, where product management presents their plan of feature implementation, revenue and pricing figures, competition analysis, and so on. The objective of such a meeting is to ensure that management / executive sponsors [...]
Product Development – some of the project planning related steps – Requirements gathering contd..
Filed Under Requirements | Posted on September 21, 2008
Typically, when a new project or new version is being conceptualized, the actual product development is not kicked off until senior management / executives have had a chance to review the requirements identified for the release and get a sense of assurance that the features planned for the release fulfil certain conditions. This typically is [...]
