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Product vs Project
Vivek Prahlad

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My Background

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ThoughtWorker for 8.5 years

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Roughly half my time between
Projects and Products

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Tech lead

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Agile Coach

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Project manager

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Product manager

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Author of Frankenstein

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Tech lead of Twist

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So

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Does agile work for Products?

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Yes

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Can you conceptualize, build and market Products
from India?

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Yes

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Outsourcing should really be a four letter word.

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U10g?

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Before we begin

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A few definitions

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Project

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Building software in (potentially) multiple releases

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Support and evolution

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Internal or External customers

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Customers represented by Business Analysts,
Domain experts

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Goals?

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Build something that solves a problem
(or problems)

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Secondary goals

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Improve skills

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Product?

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Multiple releases

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Functionality with each release

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Invariably external users

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Customers represented by Product Managers,
Business Analysts

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Goals?

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Build something useful / valuable

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Lines can be blurred

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Would building a search engine be a product or
project?

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In my experience

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Working on a product is a superset of project
activities

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Development activities roughly similar

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Getting started

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Business Plan

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Inception

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Business AND technical risk

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Validating the business plan

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Market research

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Surveys

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Analysts

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Domain experts

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Team composition

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Development strategy

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Addressing technical debt

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Growing estimates?

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Stability issues?

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Testing strategy

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Tests are a valuable asset

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Problem:

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Test execution time grows linearly

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Solution?

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Tools like Test load balancer can help split your test
suite

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Documentation?

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Best handled as a part of a development

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Documentation part of source control

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Everything that changes part of source control

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Demo scripts

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Presentations

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Usability testing results

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Additional activities

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Demos

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Support

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Feature requests and feedback

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Usability testing

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Planned capacity for these activities

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Gotchas and Pitfalls

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‘Role bleed’

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Getting the Architecture / Platform wrong

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Not responding to feedback fast enough

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Thank You!

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Q &A