There’s a pattern I sometimes see at software companies, particularly those targeting enterprises or on the long march moving their installed base from on-premise to SaaS. The go-to-market materials present a glowing picture of well-planned products, but underneath there’s a jumble of mismatched pieces and arcane product history| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
(Or How Major Platform Migrations Really Happen) Many companies have replatforming efforts underway. Architectures get old, new kinds of partners or integrations emerge, hard-to-maintain monolithic code gets broken into microservices, acquisitions force integration of dissimilar systems, etc. This is an essential part of the software product business, but fraught with| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Post #1 noted that your development team will never, ever, ever be big enough to catch up with your dreams. – which led to The Law of Ruthless Prioritization. Here’s a second fundamental reality of software economics: All of the profits are in the nth copy or nth user. Building| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Newton taught us that gravity’s not just a good idea, it’s the law. I’ve spent a lot of the last decade with one foot in the engineering organization and the other with marketing/sales. While the two sides of the business communicate poorly, I think there’s| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes