My answer, originally published on Quora [http://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-remove-features-that-are-not-popular/answer/Sue-Raisty] . Q: Why should I remove features that are not popular? I've read many articles that suggest that product managers should be removing features that are not used…
Software Design
A collection of 7 posts
The Content Manager Product Pattern
Content Management is huge in enterprise software, and thus the Content Manager Pattern is one of the most important high-level Product Patterns [https://blog.sueraisty.com/tag/software-design/]. Content management is the primary function of most software described as a…
Product Patterns: What is Content?
In my posts about Product Patterns [https://blog.sueraisty.com/macro-product-patterns-enterprise-software/], I’ve mentioned the word “content” a lot. I’ve even mentioned a few high-level product patterns called the “Content Manager” and “Content Authoring Tool.” This is an important…
Product Patterns: The big ones you see over and over in Enterprise Software
Since I’ve become attuned toProduct Patterns [https://blog.sueraisty.com/product-patterns-everywhere/](buckets of software functionality that appear in product after product), I’ve noticed dozens of them. Some are big, top-level patterns. And some are really sub-patterns, that exist…
Product Patterns Everywhere
Over the past 10 years, I’ve probably done hands-on analysis the functionality and usability of over 300 software products and online services (not including mobile apps). Why so many? Because playing with software is not just my job, but…