Watching Graphisoft Talks #3: Shaping the Future of Archicad with Sylwester Pawluk

[Scraptrash]

(I can’t directly leave comments in the original post so I open a topic here. )

Graphisoft Talks #3: Shaping the Future of Archicad with Sylwester Pawluk 

Watched it, and I’m pretty confused. 
Basically the whole interview conversation can fit to any other software development projects, by just changing some terms like design options, keynotes and AI visualizer. In fact there’re only these 3 terms that I I tell this interview is talking about archicad. 

Sylwester is surely very experienced in software development, but from the interview he absolutely has no idea what the AEC industry and architects are doing and what architects (who are the main customer group of archicad) want. 

[Miha Nahtigal]

I agree fully. The interview wasn't reassuring for the future of Archicad.

[Jp1138]

The answers were fairly generic, yes. I got the impression that there´s a lot of work being done in the procedures, but not in what is really needed 🤔

[thesleepofreason]

No - that didn't give a very clear or bright picture of Archicad's future. The main theme of the parts I watched (I don't really care about the bio of GS employees) seemed to be an explanation as to why things are as they are. All under the assumption that paying users know close to nothing about the hardships faced by benevolent software developers or how to run a business. What is becoming increasingly clear is that GS doesn't have a vision for how AC should support us architectural designers in our future challenges which ultimately is what we are continuing paying them for. It always seem to cut short after the corporate part.... or have I missed an episode?

[Karl Ottenstein]

It was interesting to learn about Sylwester's remarkable background, but I agree that it is the wrong background for the Director of Product Management for Archicad.   Development  (coding) manager perhaps, but not the coordinator of all product managers - thereby coordinating future feature development ... but with no knowledge/background of the customer base and needs.

(Maybe I'm old fashioned, but if the entire transcript was written, I could have read it in 5 minutes.  Instead, even at 2x playback speed (which was still understandable) it took 30 minutes to learn nothing about the future of Archicad.  I'm just not a fan of time-consuming podcasts/webcasts vs reading.)

[Scraptrash]

Agree. Totally wrong background for the position. The interviewer kept trying to dig out more details, but Sylwester kept dodging with generic answers. 
That’s a bad sign. 

[jl_lt]

The new CEO will surely provide with that much needed visión