Comments on: The Curse of the White Sunglasses http://www.productbeautiful.com/2008/04/22/the-curse-of-the-white-sunglasses/ Building Product Management from the Ground Up by Paul Young Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:21:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jally http://www.productbeautiful.com/2008/04/22/the-curse-of-the-white-sunglasses/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 jally Mon, 19 May 2008 02:57:34 +0000 http://www.productbeautiful.com/?p=90#comment-1433 actually white frame sunglasses are in trend this summer, check http://www.cheaponlineglasses.com/cheaponlineglasses-White-Frame-Sunglasses-cid-42-list.html however i never see men wearing white ones actually white frame sunglasses are in trend this summer, check http://www.cheaponlineglasses.com/cheaponlineglasses-White-Frame-Sunglasses-cid-42-list.html
however i never see men wearing white ones

]]> By: Scott Ryder http://www.productbeautiful.com/2008/04/22/the-curse-of-the-white-sunglasses/comment-page-1/#comment-1376 Scott Ryder Fri, 02 May 2008 00:46:55 +0000 http://www.productbeautiful.com/?p=90#comment-1376 To combat this I ask my team to consider the cost of each feature that gets added to the product and then balance that against the benefits (both hard and soft). The cost of any given feature never goes to zero until it is removed from the product. And we all know that killing a feature can be tricky. Another way to think of it is in terms of product surface area. Each time you increase product surface area you just made a lot of peoples' jobs harder (documentation, qa, services, etc) The cost of your pet feature will be in every release as qa verifies it and engineering has to take it into consideration as they add more functionality. Pretty quickly your svelte yacht can become an aircraft carrier and aircraft carriers are slow and hard to turn. Scott To combat this I ask my team to consider the cost of each feature that gets added to the product and then balance that against the benefits (both hard and soft). The cost of any given feature never goes to zero until it is removed from the product. And we all know that killing a feature can be tricky.

Another way to think of it is in terms of product surface area. Each time you increase product surface area you just made a lot of peoples’ jobs harder (documentation, qa, services, etc) The cost of your pet feature will be in every release as qa verifies it and engineering has to take it into consideration as they add more functionality.

Pretty quickly your svelte yacht can become an aircraft carrier and aircraft carriers are slow and hard to turn.

Scott

]]> By: Amar Rama http://www.productbeautiful.com/2008/04/22/the-curse-of-the-white-sunglasses/comment-page-1/#comment-1374 Amar Rama Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:13:49 +0000 http://www.productbeautiful.com/?p=90#comment-1374 This is exactly what I went through recently and so what I wanted to say - thanks for saying it :) This is exactly what I went through recently and so what I wanted to say – thanks for saying it :)

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