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With Daptiv PPM Summer ’08, we've added the Greenhouse to the Daptiv Community, a new part of your experience with us as a vendor that makes you part of Daptiv’s innovation and product development processes. The Greenhouse is a new tab within the online user community where our users can submit product ideas, vote on ideas they would like to see implemented, and collaborate with the Daptiv Team on ideas that are currently in development. (Note: You must be a Daptiv customer and logged into the Community to access the Greenhouse tab.) The Greenhouse is an innovation within the product development community - so much so that the story made the cover of Business Week's "Innovation" section last week:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2008/id20080611_656376.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_top+stories
The Greenhouse has been in a private beta since YouCon '08, our annual user conference earlier this year. During this period customer participation was fantastic with 241 ideas, 1380 votes, and 268 comments as of the official go live this morning. During the beta period we implemented five ideas with our Spring '08 release. More importantly, as a result of the voting that has occurred thus far we have adjusted our roadmap accordingly. We bumped two features up in priority so that we can deliver them sooner than planned (see the In Progress section under the greenhouse tab). We are looking to do the same with other ideas in the near future.
The Greenhouse has already become an extremely valuable application for the Daptiv Team and has changed the way we prioritize our roadmap and collaborate with our customers. We look forward to receiving thousands of ideas. Ideas will be aligned with our strategic direction and evaluated against the amount of effort required to implement them so that we are sure to deliver as much value as possible in a timely manner. Of course, not every idea will get executed, but the power of community will prevail.
The Greenhouse is live - let's see what we can grow!
About Eric Bergman
As the Director of Products at Daptiv where I am responsible for our product roadmap, and ensuring that it is aligned with our corporate strategy, market opportunity, and customer need.
Outside of Daptiv, I live a few miles north of the city I was born and raised in. My family, friends, and work are all in Seattle and I don't ever see myself leaving this great city. Sure, it rains, but the great local music makes up for it! Plus my dog enjoys the outdoors and so do my wife and I. I enjoy sports (Basketball being my favorite) and I as I mentioned before I love music which is status quo for a Seattleite - I think it is something in the coffee. Other than that I volunteer with the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America - a nonprofit that is near and dear to my heart.
I have been with Daptiv for almost 7 years which equates to something like 21 internet years. I have worked on just about all off our products dating back to Enterprise 3.0 and eProject Express. I have worked with some amazing people in my time here. Prior to Daptiv I worked in IT then joined a couple of different web based software start-ups that had a lot of money, ideas, and great people - but none of which are in business anymore. I have a couple of different certifications in Product Management but nothing has taught me more about solving problems with technology than working with real people and real customers.