Comments for Product Management Tips by Gopal Shenoy

Comment on First experience on a US long distance train by gopalshenoy

gopalshenoy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:27:46 +0000

David,

I heard just this from someone yesterday that other than the Boston - Washington corridor, it is hell elsewhere on the East Coast as well.

Gopal

Comment on First experience on a US long distance train by David

David — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:56:25 +0000

You must be in the northeast. Anywhere else in the U.S. and a train will take more than the drive time even taking rush-hour traffic congestion into consideration. Passenger trains wait for freight trains. And, stopping at every town along the way contributes to the time it takes to get anywhere.

At night, the interior lights stay on, so you can’t see outside.

We took the train for fun. We did want to take a train from LA to Seattle, but never did. Gas prices be damned, I’ll drive.

Comment on How useful are the error messages? by David

David — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:52:29 +0000

Maintenance windows should be scheduled on a regular basis. All updates should be made during those windows. The windows should be communicated in advance, so users can plan around them.

Comment on Permission Marketing gone astray - InfusionSoft by David

David — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:50:38 +0000

If there is no control specfically capturing your permission, why did you think permission was involved. Anytime you give your email, you could be giving it to a spammer, unless they specifically request your permission. Even then, as a permission platform, you might get ads that you don’t want, but they should come from the company you gave the permission to. Revoke that permission.

To keep this from happening again, create a temporary email address on a free service, get your content, and then never sign on to that email account again.

Comment on The beloved “Nano” by David

David — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:47:18 +0000

I recently saw something that small here in the U.S. I want one. Several of them could fit in a standard on-street parking slot. The point seems to be that your body won’t have any contact with asphalt. I have no idea what the mileage was. TATA could sell his car here in the U.S., but it might need some polution controls.

Comment on Working with recruiters - set the ground RULE !! by David

David — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:40:01 +0000

I had applied at a company and was under consideration for a wonderful job. A bodyshop recruiter called me and read me a job description. It was very long, which coorelates to very large companies, like the one where I was under consideration. I asked who the client was, and told them that they could not present me. They told the company that I said bad things about the company, so my application was thrown out. I had not said anything bad. The hiring manager was crying. And, well, I was ….

Comment on Gas prices changing marketing? by David

David — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:35:16 +0000

Gasoline is reasserting geography as a barrier. Marketing needs to look back to the time when markets were local, and trains hauled everything to town. Since gasoline doesn’t really have an issolating effect on money, banking and the flow of money won’t stop within the boundaries of the local market, so don’t expect that we will go back to the time when local markets meant local wealth. The wealth is still going to be extracted and localized in the financial centers. It will be weird.

Comment on Product Integration - Usability killer? by Back or Front? « Confessions of a Digital Immigrant

Back or Front? « Confessions of a Digital Immigrant — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:52:13 +0000

[...] of functionality. Gopal Shenoy, who writes a popular blog on Product Management, has an interesting example to [...]

Comment on Are you agile? by subrataalpha

subrataalpha — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:33:28 +0000

Hi Gopal

Yes - the posts you pointed me to was very informative.
We are trying to get to a quarterly release cycle for some of our key products and I was keen to see (and measure) how the spec quality improves over every quarter. Are there some metrics that I can keep track of? I could think of stuff like how many defects raised by QA were attributable to incorrect requirements, number of times a spec had to be changed after walk-throughs with dev (very difficult to implement)etc. I was looking to pick your mind for stuff that would really make sense in measuring.

Sincerely
Subrata

Comment on Need your help - my BPMA presentation by Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:25:53 +0000

I enjoyed your presentation very much. It was one of the few presentations I’ve seen recently which drove me to the web afterwards to look stuff up (including this website).

Well done!

Mike

Comment on Are you agile? by gopalshenoy

gopalshenoy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:22:37 +0000

Hi Subrata,

Hopefully the following two posts will help you

http://productmanagementtips.com/2008/05/08/goodfunctionalspec/

http://productmanagementtips.com/2007/11/12/functionalspecs/

If not, let me know.

Gopal

Comment on Are you agile? by subrataalpha

subrataalpha — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:53 +0000

Hi Gopal

A question that is slightly tangential to the topic.
I recently was conversing with a development manager and the conversation quickly veered to quality of specs coming from Product Management. Now, I don’t know of any practice or methodology that evaluates the quality of specs. I would love to hear your view about this and anything that you may have come across in your experience.

Sincerely
Subrata

Comment on Permission Marketing gone astray - InfusionSoft by gopalshenoy

gopalshenoy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:09:01 +0000

Hi Nick,

Thanks for pointing this out. I had no idea that there was a setting to control this and that it is automatically turned on. I have turned it off and it should now not be a problem.

Thank you for reading my blog and for taking the time to comment. I appreciate the feedback. Wanted to let you know that I have listened (Now, I just hope I don’t get an email - why the heck did you turn off that cool feature :-))

Gopal

Comment on Permission Marketing gone astray - InfusionSoft by Nick

Nick — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:17:57 +0000

Hi Gopal,
I was searching for perspectives on Infusionsoft and came to your site keen to hear your message. They are valid, however when I visited your site I was greeted with this annoying popup called Snap Shots that appeared to promote other WordPress articles of yours. All I wanted was to read the article on Infusionsoft and yet was harassed by this piece of software. I could not work out quickly how to stop it and so it stole some of my time.

Maybe some of Clate’s message could equally be applied to your attempts to promote your other articles.

Comment on Product Management lessons from the latest iPhone debacle by gopalshenoy

gopalshenoy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:22:43 +0000

Yes, it did sell a lot and will continue to sell a lot, but I don’t think this is the media buzz that Apple and AT&T wanted.

Comment on Product Management lessons from the latest iPhone debacle by Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:35:14 +0000

It still sold a few million units in the space of three days. If that’s a debacle, I’d like to see what a non-debacle looks like.

Comment on Finally a US citizen by Jeff Lash

Jeff Lash — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:55:32 +0000

And just in time for July 4 as well — congratulations!

Comment on Apple customer service complaints!! by Asaf

Asaf — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:46:50 +0000

I have been trying to purchase the new Iphone for the last three days. On Saturday I called them and they said that they have a line 1hr deep and they have enough phone to help everyone out. When I got there 20 minutes later, the line was gone, and they said that they quit selling the iphone for the day, wtf? I drove from the other side of town, to get to this stupid store with no success. On the next day, I came in early, 45 minutes prior to store opening. I was the 4th person in line, and when they opened, they said they have only 3 phones left, and everyone else is SOL, come back tomorrow. WTF apple? Apple sucks, I will not recommend them to anyone any longer. AT&T Service sucks as well, and I don’t know why I am even bothering with this ish. Thanks for listening.

Comment on Permission Marketing gone astray - InfusionSoft by Clate Mask

Clate Mask — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:45:16 +0000

Gopal–very fair point. We should have had the language on there that communicates we will send follow-up messages when you hit submit. My bad. We will change that.

I complete agree with you about permission marketing. And I admit that sometimes we get going too fast and make mistakes that result in unwanted messages. But believe me: we do want to send value, build a relationship and become a trusted advisor to folks who want to know how to build their businesses more quickly and effectively.

Thanks for your comment. It will cause me to examine things and see if we’ve been too heavy on promotion and light on valuable content to our prospects.

BTW, I really appreciate your perspectives and am a little embarassed to be called out by you.

Comment on Permission Marketing gone astray - InfusionSoft by John Feeney

John Feeney — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:19:38 +0000

This seems to be a universal situation. Especially when you go through a “publication” site. Download a “white paper” then all of a sudden your blasted with other opportunities.

Permission based has slipped in recent months. Which begs the question why are they blocking “white papers” to sign-up