Comments on: I Guess We’re a Product Team After All

By: Do You Think Social Has Jumped the Shark? | Oracle

Do You Think Social Has Jumped the Shark? | Oracle — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:10:31 +0000

[...] feeling the same way with a caveat. We’ve become a product team, which takes away from the lab work, and even though everyone is into social now, I’m looking [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:35:41 +0000

Sure, but refer to my comment about being careful what you wish to have.

By: chet

chet — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:18:08 +0000

it would be fun if you could do that though…Hey, it's done. You take over now!

I wish I had your problems.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:54:47 +0000

Heh, easier said than done my friend.

Plus, we're not ready to do that just yet, although it may become a necessity if Connect gets too big or too mission-critical.

By: chet

chet — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:17:46 +0000

Can't you throw it over the wall like Oracle Mix?

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:06:41 +0000

Billy would probably enjoy my job, but he wouldn't get to write books and travel around the country going to conferences

Careful about wishing for things.

Thanks for echoing John's kind words.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:03:57 +0000

Yay, I win!

Thanks for the kind words, appreciated. We do what we can, but I think we'll have to slow down a bit to account for our users a little more in the future. It's going to be a challenge to balance cool new stuff with enhancements. A good problem to have though

It's been quiet so far (knocking on wood), so maybe I'm being overly cautious.

By: chet

chet — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:02:10 +0000

I'll echo jpiwowar, you have good problems.

Also, a warning:

“I have the coolest job at Oracle.”

Others know this (like Billy Crime, I mean Cripe), and they're out for your job.

By: jpiwowar

jpiwowar — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:27:08 +0000

Congratulating anyone on inadvertently becoming an operations and product team simultaneously would be mean, so I won't. I will, however, give sincere and hearty congrats for keeping a viral-to-vital product going at a pace of a new release every 6 months. That's flat-out awesome anywhere, and even more impressive given the size and geographic distribution of your team.

And if you have users that care enough to launch a Facebook-style revolt, you have already won.