CarsForSale.com.....WOW
- By jon.berna
To do this effectively vendors have to build in public, which nearly all won't do. You have show your roadmap. The argument that your competition is going to pick a part your strategy is bogus. I am not talking about large partnerships or new products, just existing products. The other argument not to share a roadmap is because they don't have one or it's all $ add-ons, back to your main point.more vendors should focus on constantly shipping new dealer-requested features AND not view new features as an add-on package to sell.
A lot of the product development world is transitioning away from agile because it's not agile enough, people have been saying this for years as a joke but the big tech layoffs were primarily to the middle managers between development and leadership. When you destroy all the bureaucracy you can actually build very fast and get something between a prototype and finished product out in a matter of days now versus sprints. AI has helped to close the gap between below avg developers and good developers so smaller teams can really move now.
Bottom line: Just let the devs build the cool ideas they try them on users. If the users like it then scale it, stop planning for the sake of planning.
The core issue is companies confusing a feature versus a product because it costs so much to build everything. Every new innovative thing your application does shouldn't be individual branded products. Remember the mission solve problems and be useful.