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Viewing entries tagged with 'product quality'
Eating Dog Food?
I’m not sure how many of you have heard the phrase, “we eat our own dog food,” but for several years at least, companies especially in Silicon Valley have used this phrase in order to impress their customers that their product is so good that they run their business on it and use it themselves. This was practically a mantra at Netscape, and I can’t count how many times I’ve said this myself.
Back to Basics
Normally I focus on the product definition aspects of creating successful products. My reasoning is simple: it doesn’t matter how great a job you do in building your product if it isn’t the right product. That’s really the role of the product manager; to define the right product at the right time. However, there is one little detail that too many product teams seem to miss, even when they define an otherwise excellent product. That is, the product has to actually work.