How it is to create a new product?

How is it to create a new product?
This is the first post from series of articles about creating a new product.
When you start doing something new you have a lot of different challenges ahead of you. The most important I think is to define your product and believe me it’s not so simple. There are many approaches how to start defining it.

* You can define everything upfront (waterfall approach)
* You can be agiler and define your product more on the fly.

No matter what you choose you should have at least vision how it should work. You don’t need to know all details immediately you can figure out them later. Right now I’m in the middle of creating two different products.
One is a very complicated system which requires coordination of around 10 people. Outcome product will be a suite of applications communicating with each other, calculating necessary data and providing results to the end user UI.
A second product is less complicated and it’s a website where fitness lovers can find different kinds of training.
I will try to describe in separate articles few challenges which I’m facing on my daily basis and how I’m dealing with them. Below some of them

* Team building
* Defining products
* Organizing work
* Tracking progress
* Defining system architecture
* Dealing with time pressure
* Being agile
* Defining sprint scope
* Dealing with backlog items