Comments on: How Product Management is like … StarCraft? http://www.productbeautiful.com/2006/09/30/how-product-management-is-like-starcraft/ Building Product Management from the Ground Up by Paul Young Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:50:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: elizabeth http://www.productbeautiful.com/2006/09/30/how-product-management-is-like-starcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-66 elizabeth Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:38:18 +0000 http://www.productbeautiful.com/2006/09/30/how-product-management-is-like-starcraft/#comment-66 While I've been a fan of resource management games for years (StarCraft, MOO2, SimCity and all its variants), I never once drew the connection between my vocation and my amusements. It makes perfect sense! While I’ve been a fan of resource management games for years (StarCraft, MOO2, SimCity and all its variants), I never once drew the connection between my vocation and my amusements. It makes perfect sense!

]]> By: Andrew http://www.productbeautiful.com/2006/09/30/how-product-management-is-like-starcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Andrew Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:12:02 +0000 http://www.productbeautiful.com/2006/09/30/how-product-management-is-like-starcraft/#comment-52 Try Master of Orion 2. Turn based games may not have the frantic clickiness of RTS, but the problems you ignore early or don't realise are there come back to haunt you time and time again. Plan ahead, consider all the angles, pace yourself, build risk strategies, keep an eye on the competition but don't just copy, and overall remember what you are trying to achieve and focus on it. Try Master of Orion 2. Turn based games may not have the frantic clickiness of RTS, but the problems you ignore early or don’t realise are there come back to haunt you time and time again.

Plan ahead, consider all the angles, pace yourself, build risk strategies, keep an eye on the competition but don’t just copy, and overall remember what you are trying to achieve and focus on it.

]]> By: Product Beautiful » Blog Archive » The Games We Play http://www.productbeautiful.com/2006/09/30/how-product-management-is-like-starcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Product Beautiful » Blog Archive » The Games We Play Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:16:16 +0000 http://www.productbeautiful.com/2006/09/30/how-product-management-is-like-starcraft/#comment-2 [...] Every PM plays The Game. Every Development organization plays The Game. This time it’s not StarCraft. [...] [...] Every PM plays The Game. Every Development organization plays The Game. This time it’s not StarCraft. [...]

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