Re: [MLO] How to handle Feature Requests
Calendar overview +1 too Cheers NG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
RE: [MLO] How to handle Feature Requests
Mark, Uservoice does appear to be an important step forward by giving a clear picture of the priorities of a proposed enhancement. However, the picture is flawed because it only shows how much support a proposal has, without showing at all how much opposition it has. I wish that I could use one of my votes to vote against a proposal I find unwise. I understand that the rules of Uservoice are beyond your control, but if you think of a way of making opposition tangible, it would be helpful. -Dwight From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Levison Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 4:21 PM To: Mylifeorganized Subject: [MLO] How to handle Feature Requests Its wonderful that people discuss their needs and desires for features on this list, however this discussion doesn't give Andrey and his team a good sense of the priorities. After all it costs nothing to say +1 to every request that goes by. As a result we've established mlo @ uservoice http://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general as a forum to go and vote for features. FYI the current leader board is: IPad app 79 votes; Calendar overview 74 and Auto-syncing 54. Uservoice is a simple system that allows you to add feature requests and vote for features that you want. Its better than the forum because you're limited to 10 votes forcing you to make wise decisions about what you really want. Example: * Calendar overview -I've given 3 votes, because I think its insanely important. I also realize it will take a long to implement and so I won't get my votes back for a while * Auto-Sync - I've also given 3 votes, because I think its important and will likely be completed sooner so I will get my votes back and reuse them. Cheers Mark Levison http://www.flickr.com/photos/36331...@n00/3833840021/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/36331...@n00/3833840021/ Mark http://www.flickr.com/photos/36331...@n00/3833840021/ Mark Levison | http://agilepainrelief.com/ Agile Pain Relief Consulting | Certified Scrum Trainer http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp Agile Editor @ InfoQ | http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/ Blog | http://twitter.com/mlevison Twitter | Office: (613) 862-2538 Recent Entries: http://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2010/09/story-slicing-how-sma ll-is-enough.html Story Slicing How Small is Small Enough, http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/11/why-use-an-agile-coach.html Why use an Agile Coach -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
Re: [MLO] How to handle Feature Requests
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:54 PM, m...@grantsmiths.org wrote: *Mark, Uservoice does appear to be an important step forward by giving a clear picture of the priorities of a proposed enhancement. However, the picture is flawed because it only shows how much support a proposal has, without showing at all how much opposition it has. I wish that I could use one of my votes to vote against a proposal I find unwise. I understand that the rules of Uservoice are beyond your control, but if you think of a way of making opposition tangible, it would be helpful.* Dwight - if nothing else you could always just make a note in the comments that you don't like the idea. Its tempting to write a more sophisticated uservoice knockoff myself, but I think I will stay focused on my Coaching/Consulting business :-0 Cheers Mark Levison [image: Mark] http://www.flickr.com/photos/36331...@n00/3833840021/*Mark Levison* | Agile Pain Relief Consulting http://agilepainrelief.com/ | Certified Scrum Trainer Agile Editor @ InfoQ http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp | Bloghttp://www.notesfromatooluser.com/| Twitter http://twitter.com/mlevison | Office: (613) 862-2538 Recent Entries: Story Slicing How Small is Small Enoughhttp://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2010/09/story-slicing-how-small-is-enough.html, Why use an Agile Coachhttp://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/11/why-use-an-agile-coach.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
Re: RE: [MLO] How to handle Feature Requests
If you object to proposal X couldn't you just create a feature of not X and vote for that? That way people would be limited in their objections and they would carry a lot of weight. Lisa from mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
Re: RE: [MLO] How to handle Feature Requests
You raise an interesting point Dwight. Firstly though, all credit to Mark for setting up the MLO uservoice facility as an interim. Andrey said in the product roadmap that he will be looking at a longer term solution for feature suggestions which may or may not be uservoice. I tend to agree with you that the facility to vote against something is useful (if not abused). Other user voting services like userecho already have this. The advantage, I think is threefold. Firstly, it helps to avoid feature bloat if a significant number of people do not want a feature. Secondly, if a majority are indifferent to a feature and don't rate it highly enough to vote for it then they should still have the opportunity to lower it's priority i.e. vote against it. If this happened, features that are most important to most people would be developed first. The economists call this opportunity cost. In this case, with limited resource, the true cost of developing a new feature is what doesn't get developed in it's place. Thirdly, a strong against vote might sway the developer into making a feature optional where possible to keep everybody happy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
[MLO] How to handle Feature Requests
Its wonderful that people discuss their needs and desires for features on this list, however this discussion doesn't give Andrey and his team a good sense of the priorities. After all it costs nothing to say +1 to every request that goes by. As a result we've established mlo @ uservoicehttp://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general as a forum to go and vote for features. FYI the current leader board is: IPad app 79 votes; Calendar overview 74 and Auto-syncing 54. Uservoice is a simple system that allows you to add feature requests and vote for features that you want. Its better than the forum because you're limited to 10 votes forcing you to make wise decisions about what you really want. Example: - Calendar overview -I've given 3 votes, because I think its insanely important. I also realize it will take a long to implement and so I won't get my votes back for a while - Auto-Sync - I've also given 3 votes, because I think its important and will likely be completed sooner so I will get my votes back and reuse them. Cheers Mark Levison [image: Mark] http://www.flickr.com/photos/36331...@n00/3833840021/*Mark Levison* | Agile Pain Relief Consulting http://agilepainrelief.com/ | Certified Scrum Trainer Agile Editor @ InfoQ http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp | Bloghttp://www.notesfromatooluser.com/| Twitter http://twitter.com/mlevison | Office: (613) 862-2538 Recent Entries: Story Slicing How Small is Small Enoughhttp://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2010/09/story-slicing-how-small-is-enough.html, Why use an Agile Coachhttp://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/11/why-use-an-agile-coach.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MyLifeOrganized group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorgani...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
