Do we need discipline while developing a product?

Anybody who wants to develop a product should answer the below 3 questions to themselves.

1. Why do we need it?

2. What happens if doesn't exist?

3. Who are the takers?

Once answered all the above 3 questions we are convinced and made sure ourselves that why the product should be developed. Then to develop the product we need an elaborative and systematic plan of action, Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) becomes an instrument to achieve this.

Every product is subjected to market actions!!! marketing management can deffinetly alter the shape of the product, in other words marketing management would drive the product to its destiny and product life cycle management will become an instrumentation to have a user friendly usable product.

Going through the product life cycle is of its kind. If we enjoy while doing the same, it gives us more fruits personally and for the product too. Especially when the whole team participates, involves in putting their efforts to revolutionarize the product. Ofcourse it is a painful process to produce documents and sitting in brain storming sessions, but that's the real fun to have.

Very first step in the Product Life Cycle is to gather the requirements, these requirements shouldn't be constrained / limited or shall not be derived keeping deadlines in view. And when we start gathering requirements for a particular product we need to keep in mind an end users perspective of using it. How an end user is going to use the product. If we can step into the shoes of the end user and productize to his / her needs then the job is accomplished.

Product LifeCycle provides the required discipline to achieve the same and restrict the developer not slipping towards someone's imagination, and will ensure the product is not to satisfy somebody's technical thirst. And the key thing one needs to think of always is that, the technology is only a means to provide a better / convenient way of giving usable solution to an end user.

I would like to discuss / share more on Product Life Cycle Management in further blogs.