I’ve been busily updating our LabVIEW roadmaps for NIWeek next week and once again I am faced with the challenge of creating a presentation that is relevant to a crowd of LabVIEW users – we are doing so many things with LabVIEW, that is more difficult than you think. So as I am preparing for next week, I thought I would hit the user base to see what you guys want to know.
My goals for a roadmap presentation are:
1. Show your loyal users that you are hearing them and understand their concerns, and share our plans to address these concerns
2. Explain our higher-level strategy and investment directions (for example, if you aren’t considering the benefits of using LV FPGA with our RIO architecture, you need to)
3. Recap where we are today – most users can’t keep up with everything we are doing
4. Speak to the skeptics in the room with an honest assessment of key issues that have and share plans to address those issues (to push them to reconsider)
5. Capture reactions to our plans, questions, and open issues from the customers at hand.
Maybe I am missing something. Respond with any other general topics that you would like to see in a LabVIEW roadmap discussion, or send in specific questions or comments so I can comment and/or include them in my presentation.
July 30, 2009 at 1:04 pm |
The basic step of presenting the roadmap is already a step in the right direction.
The specific points you made seem to cover the basic needs.
One issue with point 3 – This isn’t directly related to the roadmap issue, but NI does tend to rush forward all the time. While this may not make business sense, I’m sure there are many users who would appreciate if NI stopping running after features for a year and focused on bugfixes and polishing of the IDE. If you look at the idea exchange NI opened a couple of months back, you will see that the majority of ideas deal with UI issues, mostly because that’s the pain points users feel on a regular basis.
P.S. Can you find out whether this presentation will be recorded? Some of us can’t make it to NIWeek and having the material available as an online video is certainly appreciated.