building great products
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building great products
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:
Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play
@shreyas A visualisation of this killer thread, for easy reference https://t.co/6thX3PUJxG
The Working Backwards product definition process is all about is fleshing out the concept and achieving clarity of thought about what we will ultimately go off and build. It typically has four steps:
- Start by writing the Press Release . Nail it. The press release describes in a simple way what the product does and why it exists - what are the
Dr Werner Vogels - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ • Working Backwards - All Things Distributed
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