Rob Grady

37 Signals doesn’t get Roadmaps

37Signals recently published a blog post titled “You don’t need a product roadmap” that suggests that roadmaps are generally bad since they are rarely met. Additionally they suggest publishing a roadmap is “The slippery slope of selling tomorrow over today.” As a regular producer of software product roadmaps I certainly agree that static roadmaps (updated once [...]

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Peter Merholz says Stop Designing Products but I would advocate baby-steps first

[DISCLAIMER: I didn't hear the presentation but I read through the slides and am commenting on what I interpreted to be the salient points with a few of my own] Peter Merholz recently gave a presentation where he advocated looking beyond designing products and design the entire experience strategy. I absolutely applaud the concept of taking [...]

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