Nearly 30,000 new physical consumer products are introduced each year, and 95 percent of them fail. And no business is immune to this harrowing statistic, including software, where close to 85 percent of big data software projects fail. Of those software projects that are not canceled, many software products are delivered late or suffer from quality and security issues. Product managers face many challenges, and the odds of success are slim. Amidst such cloudiness and odds, wouldn’t it be a fool’s game to be responsible for a product’s ultimate success or failure?
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