Product Lifecycle Puns

What options exist?

My background has been in media planning, and after getting an MBA I went into product/brand marketing. It turned into a glorified powerpoint churner job and I really don't enjoy presenting and doing salesy marketing.

I'm considering getting into growth marketing/ lifecycle marketing. I had tangential experience with digital ad buying 6-7 years ago but not sure if that's relevant anymore. Has anyone made that transition and if so, how did you go about it?

The small startup I'm at is looking to create a website which has ordering capabilities using the Square API. For now I'm just looking to create a simple React/bootstrap site and figure out how to approach the development process from a PM's standpoint. This will probably later be turned into a MERN or PERN project and I want to make sure I effectively roll out new features and keep all necessary stakeholders in the loop as the project grows.

I'm the sole developer on this project for the time being and we have a project stakeholder (the CEO) and a UX designer who I'll be working with throughout this project.

Currently my game plan for the first iteration of the site is to:

1. sit down with CEO/UX Designer
2. create PRDs together
3. create React site w/ API using a mockup from the UX Designer
4. do design review
5. make updates
6. repeat 4 and 5 as needed

I believe our UX designer has a tool that'll let him create a mockup and export the HTML/CSS from it for me to use and I'm thinking of keeping our PRDs and a style guide in a readme in the repo.

Is there a better way for me to approach this or are there any tools I should be using to make this process easier? I'm planning on setting up some sort of CI/CD in case we end up bringing other devs on board and could use some input on when it's appropriate to implement something like Scrum.

Under Asset Intelligence > Product Life Cycle, all of a sudden within the past few days it says that our "Windows Server, 1809 (Datacenter Core, Standard Core)" is now End of life.

However, that same Product Lifecycle shows Server 2019 as having 7.4 years of support remaining. The same exact systems are showing up in both groups as they both reference only server 2019.

What does this mean? Do we have to upgrade windows server 2019 to build 1909 or higher? I don't see a way to do that via SCCM.

Or is this a bug? Feels weird to say these systems are no longer supported but at the same time another category in here says they are.

As many of you already know, I'm building buyforlife.com, a platform to overcome cheap products and keep corporations accountable - the Rotten Tomatoes for products.

Have you ever been annoyed about an Amazon review saying "Package arrived flawless after one day, 5 stars"?

I want to change the way people review products. We should review broken and almost worn-out products to teach how to identify cheap products (where are the stress points, what manufacturing techniques exist to alleviate those). Then compare those with used products well past their warranty period that hasn't broken, and look at why they haven't.

Our review form asks questions like "How often do you use the product?", "What's the condition?" or "Will you buy this again when it wears out?".

I'm now introducing "Recurring Reviews". After every year, the reviewer will receive an automatic reminder to assess the condition of the product and if the reviewer is still happy with it. This is how we can follow the whole lifecycle of a product.

Here is an example of how such a recurring review could look like:

https://preview.redd.it/xjm91vjydr761.png?width=558&format=png&auto=webp&s=30dad2be63d5de74ad461d2a1161f7bd31eff51c

If the reviewers would upload a picture with every review cycle, we would get an even better picture of the durability of the products. Imagine this:

https://preview.redd.it/vxgqm552gr761.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=7f6dcbdd5afb3e213def4a83a228a35b317e0a68

Let me know what you think! Any feedback is highly appreciated.

PS: Don't forget to submit your favorite BIFL product and try out the new recurring review feature :)

Can AI give you the power to create your own products? We have identified the following trends:

- Customers want uniqueness

- They want it now

- The middle man is long gone

We look forward to reading your own thoughts, comments and ideas.

Example of an IoT product that can be built with the Ideeza platform

I have recently changed jobs to a place that uses Siemens Teamcenter. In my previous workplace, we managed engineering change and configuration details in spreadsheets and SharePoint folders. We were constantly asking management to provide a tool to help be more efficient. Now that I've seen Teamcenter, I'm glad they refused. Teamcenter seems to record everything you could possibly want to know, in such a convoluted way that it's impossible to find.

So why is something that seems like it should be simple so complicated? Are there any good PLM tools out there? What makes them good? Is the PLM tool space crying out for a better product?

I joined a new company under the same group company I had been working for 2.5 years in Feb this year. My group or even my company has always been a company with strong engineering roots and have been involved with hardware products since inception.

Software products really kicked off a few years ago and the product that I'm managing with 2 other PMs started 2 years ago.

Honestly, it seems that the management is ill equipped to deal with software products. Focus is strong on short term financial planning and goals such as achieving our ebit targets even at the cost of losing our momentum. We spend hours and hours working on business cases and cost cutting sceneries to please management rather than focus on customer value.

Product wise, I like what I do. Or rather I did like it. Now, I am not so sure. There's a lot to learn but given my frustration, I'm planning to quit. The head of our department seems quite incapable of making hard decisions and we end up discussing same things again and again. From budget and goals perspective, we are like a startup but we have lost the single most important advantage a start up has and that is speed.

End of rant. Not sure what kind of advice I am looking for but just wanted to blow off some steam.

I'm a little green in powerbi, so im having trouble formulating this question. thanks in advance for the help.

doing sales analysis of our products as they go through lifecycle Stages, based on sales over a 2 year rolling average. if that ytd average is a specific % over last year, it falls into a specific stage. for example

-25% = "decline" between -10% and 10%= "maturity" greater than 10%= "growth" less than 10% but within the first 100 days = "launch"

I understand the syntax to make these 4 different measures, but I'm trying to get it so all of these stages are under one variable, called "stage".

this way we can analyze each stage and visualize the products as they go through the cycle. then also we can fill in the gaps with other stages.

is there any way to do this with one dax measure? or any other suggestions?