Comments on: Crazy Ideas

By: Stewart Rogers

Stewart Rogers — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:35:55 +0000

Re: Exec presentation. Possibly. I would guess companies vary, as some want plans and some want input to the plans.

Re: Feature request percentages. I agree. Products closer to the end-of-life will have a higher percentage than products closer to infancy. I am generally happy as long as each request has an external driver.

By: Joshua Duncan

Joshua Duncan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:22:00 +0000

Stewart,

Great questions!

I think for by the time you get to executive presentations you need to have it in recommendation format. Here is what we found and here are our plans for action.

One of the challenges with a crazy idea is that you will have to educate your audience if you have re-framed a previous strategic objective without buy-in. You may have to do a lot of pre-selling before giving final recommendations so everyone has time to digest.

As far as what percentage of feature requests make-up your next release, I think it really depends on the type of product and the market. I would say there should be a high percentage that tracks to customer insights/requests but don't have a general rule of thumb of what that is.

Looking forward to hearing hearing your thoughts here.

Thanks again for the feedback!

Josh

By: Stewart Rogers

Stewart Rogers — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:31:06 +0000

Great post! Two questions… One, do you break down the requests and present various high-level results to your executives? Two, what percentage of customer-driven feature requests make-up your next release?

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