Saturday, January 5, 2008
Management of Development Resources
Back in September, Jason Calacanis published an informative piece on the CEO/CTO relationship and the debate on allocating resources to develop product for demonstration purposes vs for scale and market delivery.
Occassionally, I am dazzled by presentations and demos only to experience buzz kill when told that what I've just seen is months away from being market ready. I welcome the vision of the opportunity when presented with a far reaching demo, but I prefer this to be prefaced with the reality of the current product status. At the same time, I think real market traction with existing product is an indication that you are on track. It is a fine balance to develop for investor/press impression versus market delivery. When in doubt, I would err on proof of concept and market delivery.
Occassionally, I am dazzled by presentations and demos only to experience buzz kill when told that what I've just seen is months away from being market ready. I welcome the vision of the opportunity when presented with a far reaching demo, but I prefer this to be prefaced with the reality of the current product status. At the same time, I think real market traction with existing product is an indication that you are on track. It is a fine balance to develop for investor/press impression versus market delivery. When in doubt, I would err on proof of concept and market delivery.
Labels: Advice, product, resource allocation
