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CAD Development Priorities

One of the big problems CAD companies have in creating their products is managing their development priorities.  As a service to the industry, I've created this chart, identifying the most important development priorities.


I'm certain this will be a great help to the major CAD vendors.  I bet they wonder what they ever did without me.

P.S. - Notice anything missing?

 

Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 12:30AM by Registered CommenterEvan Yares in , | Comments5 Comments

Reader Comments (5)

"anything missing?"

At a first pass, with veeeery tired eyes, looking at very small text, and until I read it again tomorrow, my immediate thought was the absence of any mention relating to product relevance/market development - customer acceptance and application - and no 'balloon' to ensure validation of these functions!
September 30, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterR. Paul Waddington
Nice Evan. I even printed it out.

Some things I'd add are:

Platform/Software/Web(new)/SOA(new)
Platform/Software/Web(new)/browser(new)

I'd also add a UI component. So:

UI/Consistent
UI/Optimized
UI/Easy to learn
UI/Efficient

I might redo the Ecosystem part removing SOA and somehow integrating some. "Social Media" node with things like:

SocialMedia/image/(flickr, picassa)
SocialMedia/video/(youtube,vimeo,cadjunky)
SocialMedia/Microblog/Twitter
SocialMedia/Microblog/friendfeed.
SocialMedia/comunitybuilding (facebook,myspace,spaceclaiming)
SocialMedia/Virtual Worlds

Mark

Note: I am a product manager at Siemens PLM. The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent Siemens PLM Software's positions, strategies or opinions
September 30, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMark Burhop
I'm in CAD development.
That chart is freakin' scary...

Are you working at my company?
September 30, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJoe
Anything missing? Yes. Under Platform, Software, OS, let's see: we have OSX, BeOS, RSTS/E, and... oh yeah, what about *Windows*!

...maybe Linux too?
October 3, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJeff
Nice work and it does look scary. I would add:

- Update training material, "command" level
- Update training material, "workflow" level
- Test and validate current design Workflow with new tools
- Develop, test, validate and push to the community the new Workflow the new feature allows
October 23, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterFrancis

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