Will Hsu (no relation to Steve Shu methinks … although the story is that customs reversed the "H" and "S" in my family’s last name) has a good post and emerging blog on product management and product marketing musings. Will is part of the product marketing department at eBay. I’m all for those that blog about product management and marketing disciplines.
Will’s post has some interesting perspectives on using more formalisms as part of requirements definition within the product management discipline. Having spent a good portion of my career in the telcom and software space (and writing requirements using all sorts of formal and informal methods), I think that it’s great when formalisms can be used (where the mix of technology, culture, and customer permit).
In the tech sector, good requirements skills also carry over to management consulting and sales discipline. Consider the following cartoon (source: unknown, click to enlarge):
hahaha. . . just a note, not all HSU/SHU’s are created equal :). . .there is two Chinese characters with different intonations that end up being translated into “HSU”, to complicate things even more, people from China uses “Xu” for the same two Chinese characters. . . .I’m from Taiwan so I’m guessing so is Steve 🙂