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Instead of talking about a generic user or a generic customer with some generic demographic information, you’re now dealing with… Jill. You get to know Jill. Her needs. Her fears. Her underlying motivations . And once you have that view into her head, the theory is you’ll be in a better frame of mind to answer two questions: What profitable actions do I want Jill to take for me? What do I need to do for Jill so she takes that profitable action for me? If you have users and customers , visit them. Talk with them. Research them. Understand them. Then build personas based on what you’ve uncovered. If you ...
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Jump forward in time to the day of your next big product launch (first release, new features, new market segment, etc). And your site/application crashes due to the “unexpected” demand. All you can do now is look for a bucket of water to put out the fire. What could you have done to prevent this disaster? Jump back to today and start doing it! Depending on how you look at things, this is a backwards planning exercise, or a variation of the remember the future innovation game , or risk management, or proactive product management. You can avoid a disaster by imagining what might happen, then hypothetically ...
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“Countercyclical” is a word you’re probably going to hear a lot in the coming months—from entrepreneurs professing that their businesses are not only recession-proof, but will actually fare better during lean times. It’s a word that the leaders of the casual games industry, which has a strong presence in both Seattle and Boston, have been using a lot lately. But in their case, so far, it seems to be true. Seattle-based Big Fish Games and Newton, MA-based WorldWinner both tell Xconomy that in October, while stocks were swooning and unemployment was swelling, they earned record revenues. Casual games ...
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Without setting any geographical or political stereotypes, probably the safest advise here, is you get what you pay for. Many of these organizations are nothing more than unskilled body shops. With many, they will parade their one or two or three PhD's but not talk much about the fact that 95% of the activity is done by someone with a very recent diploma from the local tech college... Do not look for innovation or detailed design. If you tell them to do something stupid, they will often do it, and then respond with a "but you said". There are a number of "big" companies that have "Pulled the pin" on their total offshore ...
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