My Experience of Product Development in 2007

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It is the last day of 2007 and I want to share my experience and opinion of Product Development in this year.

Product Development is the most exciting part under Marketing. On one hand, turning an idea into reality is hard thing. On the other hand, it is very exciting and challenging.

You need different skills from different fields. You need experience in Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Economics and Technical experience in the field you are working in. One of the challenges that I face are technical employees view the product only from the technical side. Also, non-technical employees looks at the product from the commercial side only. I had tried to bridge with the two sides and be in the middle.

Dealing with partners and try to understand their needs is very important. In addition, trying to communicate with them and tell them about your needs and requirements had required from me to have business development skills. Also, developing strategic alliances is very important. Partnership with partners had provided for me an opportunity to learn about other cultures and to understand how other international companies are working and learning from them.

Project Management is very important in Product Development. I had used useful tools that had helped me in Project Management which are: Microsoft Project Management and the online tool Google Documents.

Research skills is very important. Using the Internet, meeting professionals from the same field is very important, gathering data from the company database and conducting surveys were the main methodologies I were using. Using the Internet and trying more to understand how to use the Search tools more effectively and efficiently had helped me to get what I want from the Internet easily.

Coming from a Technical Background and being enthusiastic to learn more about product had helped me a lot. It is not only about money and figures. You need to understand the Product from technical side. That had helped me to provide First Level Support and to answer questions that employees are asking about the Products.

Learning and providing knowledge transfer to the employees in your company is very important and making every one being committed and excited to be happy in launching a particular product is a challenging thing.

This what I have in the last day of the year. I am happy that I am working in this field.

Wish you a happy & successful new year!

Happy New Year!

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