About Internet product development (1)

in many Internet enterprises, the product development process is usually that the boss assigns a task to start work immediately. After the development is completed, a simple test is conducted and then put it on the server. at this time, the product will continue to encounter issues to be resolved (requirements or bug ), A group of people can work overtime ...... Finally, the website was launched. Although there are no standardized Code , no professional testers, or development documents, the website runs normally, so far, there have been no major problems, and everything looks wonderful.

as the scale of the website continues to expand, the traffic volume is growing, and many independent support systems are added to the backend. Various business lines have also raised a lot of requirements. The technicians are busy and the time for eating, drinking, and drinking cannot be squeezed out, the task can only be completed in the early morning. In order to solve this problem, the boss recruited some technical personnel from the market and promoted the former technical personnel following him to the management position to lead the new personnel. In this case, the boss is much more relaxed and has granted many complicated daily tasks to the subordinate team for management. After these newcomers enter the role, the requirements of the business department can be basically completed, and the days of working overtime all night are gone, and everything looks wonderful.

these days, the things on the website look messy and have no distinctive characteristics. The original requirement of the product was an idea in the boss's mind. He spoke directly to the technical staff about the demand, but as the business needs keep changing, he can no longer devote himself to every detail of the product, but can only grasp the overall direction of the product. The requirements raised by the business are relatively scattered and simple, and the product planning issues are not taken into account at all. In order to solve this problem, the boss recruited a person responsible for collecting and processing product requirements, and assigned the post a nice name "Product Manager ", in this way, the details of the communication with the business and technical departments are handed over to the product manager. Most of the time, he only needs to assign tasks to the product manager. Everything looks wonderful.

when the product manager comes, in order to get the boss's affirmation of his work, he made continuous plans. Every time he came out with a product plan, he showed it to the boss. After reading these plans, the boss felt pretty good, I praised the product manager and instructed the technical department to develop the product based on the text prepared by the product manager. As there are many features to be developed in the short term, developers have to work overtime to complete these tasks. After a group of people worked hard every night, they finally completed the features provided by the product manager. After the product was launched, the boss was very satisfied and everything looked wonderful.

many new functions have been added to the website recently, after some days of operation, the boss found that there were a lot of products, but there were very few visits. I thought that so many products would certainly bring traffic, but I did not expect the expected results to be so bad. The boss reflected on it for a while and thought that the solutions for these products were good, but the greedy team lost its direction and lost the watermelon. The Development Department is also busy developing things all day, but the results are not very satisfactory. After rethinking the product direction, the boss decided not to get on the road. He had to stop and think from time to time. After deciding the direction, he cut down several of the products, which was easy and focused. Developers don't have to be busy with it. Everything looks wonderful.