The newly released data center products have been online for some time. At this stage, we often receive improvement suggestions from front-end consultants and implementers. These improvement suggestions are concentrated on 3D display and operation. The main selling point of this version is 3D. It attracted a lot of attention, because this is the first time the team has used AWAY3D technology, which is also expected. It is strange that in addition to 3D, there are two other major modules that are rarely mentioned, and these two modules take up almost 40% of the R&D investment.
Through the understanding of the front personnel, it is found that the customer is not very interested in those two modules, and most of their attention is attracted by 3D. The more attention, the more natural suggestions. I remember that many R&D personnel reported that the functions of these two modules were a bit tasteless, and the product managers insisted on adding them. Their reason was that if they only made one 3D model, the functions would be a little weak. As a result, the R&D staff added more than two months of work for this, and complained.
I believe that similar scenarios are familiar to everyone. We invested a lot of energy, and finally found that the input did not have the same output. If it is a project, the customer is God, and many times we can only accept being XX. If it is a product, it is really a sad thing. The market raises a few demands, the boss raises a few more demands, and the product manager creates a few more demands. The functions of the products are getting bigger and bigger, and we still think that the functions are extremely powerful. , As everyone knows, in the end, we often play ourselves to death.
We all know that in the life cycle of software, the later a defect is discovered, the cost of investment increases exponentially, the granularity of functions is larger than that of defects, and the consequences are more serious. The most fundamental reason is that this will lead us to only 20 % of the investment into the most valuable 20% of the features, the results can be imagined. Wanted everything, done nothing.
Product design, like life, often involves subtraction. For each function, we should ask a question: How much impact will this function have on the product? Putting 100% of your energy into 20% of the value points can actually make a boutique.