WP Product Development Done Right

Rebecca — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:49:27 +0000

Putting out a WordPress product doesn’t start and end with your code. Get to grips with what separates the pros from the newbs, and you’ll have a product that someone other than your mom installs.

Quick overview:
Whether you’re developing themes or plugins for WordPress, dumping them out into the world isn’t going to instantly win you millions of users, dollars or rave reviews. This comprehensive article from Smashing Magazine takes you through the whole process of making professional WordPress products, from idea to execution to what happens after you write your last line of code.

Customer Dev for Product Managers

Krista — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:37:17 +0000

If you build it, will they buy it? To be successful, you must verify that your product solves a real problem.

Quick overview
Don’t ask your customers what they want. Go deeper: divine what they need. How do they accomplish a given task? What is it about the process that’s tedious, inconvenient, or a time-suck? Cindy Alvarez covers the difference between customer development and usability testing, and why you must always be listening beyond what your customers say they want to drive improvement throughout the product’s life.

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WP Product Development Done Right

Customer Dev for Product Managers