The quick view is dynamic. You can sort and filter the data within it ad hoc. These operations do not alter your data and can be as simple or complex as needed. You can tell if a filter has been enabled because the quick view displays a white funnel icon in the headers of the columns where filters have been applied. It also lists the same columns at thebottom left hand side of the quick view. If the quick view has been sorted, a white triangle icon is displayed in the headers of the columns on ...

Suites and Products FeaturePlan allows for a multi-tiered product structure. While this can be broken down into Product Lines, Market Offerings,Technical Products, Modules and Components, at its simplest, FeaturePlan organizes information into suites containing products. Suites in FeaturePlan have three types of views:• Suite Overview - Displays, by record type, all the records relating specifically to that suite, as well as all of the records fromthe products associated with the suite.• Suite...

A step that product management teams often skip in the innovation process is working with customers so they have an idea of what to expect in the next product release. The success of a new product release often hinges on the relationship between the product management team and the existing customers. When that relationship goes smoothly, a new product initiative does as well. There are many factors to keeping that relationship on track, but perhaps none is as important as educating the customer...

Yes, I'm referring to that concept found in the 'Tipping Point' by Malcolm Gladwell. In his book, he asks the question, "Why is it that some ideas or behaviors or PRODUCTS start epidemics and others don't?". He follows up with another question, "And what can we do to deliberately start and control positive epidemics of our own?". I enjoyed the book, and I wanted to mention the 'stickiness factor', I guess because I recently saw this picture, and thought of it. This is a picture of a virus tha...

The picture below is of two figurines I own. So why do I own these two guys? In fact, why do I own over fifty others? I wish the makers of these figurines would've asked me a long time ago. But before I address this customer interview, I'd like to establish a little common background if I can. What's the traditional way of developing product features, in this case features for the figurine? Normally we'd say in response to some market demand. I don't even know the troll looking figurine's na...