Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Spend $100 On Windows Mobile Features
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 12:30 PM
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/08/08/one_hundred_feature_dollars.aspx
"We go through this exercise during the planning stages with customers sometimes. I like it because "to ship is to choose" - it's easy to describe things you want, but we have to ship the product eventually and some things don't make it. Deciding what stays and what goes is the hard (and painful) part of product development. So now it's your turn. You have $100 feature-dollars. How do you spend them? Anything we can do is in scope. Adding more RAM to your Treo - out of scope (we don't manufacture the device) Bring back wifi debugging! - in scope!
Here's what I came up with for me (biased by the team I work on):
• $40: cheaper and easier M2M process for ISVs
• $30: automatic install of root certificates on first exchange sync
• $15: Better one-handed navigation on PPC, especially in messaging
• $15: unified power model between PPC and Smartphone
If you had $100 feature dollars, what would you spend it on? I gave them my answer. ;)
"We go through this exercise during the planning stages with customers sometimes. I like it because "to ship is to choose" - it's easy to describe things you want, but we have to ship the product eventually and some things don't make it. Deciding what stays and what goes is the hard (and painful) part of product development. So now it's your turn. You have $100 feature-dollars. How do you spend them? Anything we can do is in scope. Adding more RAM to your Treo - out of scope (we don't manufacture the device) Bring back wifi debugging! - in scope!
Here's what I came up with for me (biased by the team I work on):
• $40: cheaper and easier M2M process for ISVs
• $30: automatic install of root certificates on first exchange sync
• $15: Better one-handed navigation on PPC, especially in messaging
• $15: unified power model between PPC and Smartphone
If you had $100 feature dollars, what would you spend it on? I gave them my answer. ;)
