A little Halloween fun – an homage to Edgar Allen Poe describing this week’s issue triage and prioritization meeting.
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Posted in Business Analysis, Product Management, Requirements, Writing
Tagged business requirements documentation, correct requirements, good requirements, managing data, product requirements, requirement correctness, requirements documentation, software requirements, writing business requirements, writing requirements
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First Look at Free Market Product Management
Imagine if potential customers gathered together, each donating some funds, to specify the development of software. Those funds would be paid to whomever agreed to meet their demands. Essentially a free market system, balancing out supply and demand. Well, this has happened recently. Read on to take a first look at this and join in the discussion.
Posted in Communication, Requirements, Requirements gathering, Writing
Tagged ambiguous requirements, bugs, gathering requirements, holy grail, holy grail requirements, managing data, monty pythod, monty python, python, Requirements, requirements elicitation, software requirements, unambiguous requirements, writing requirements
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Another Use For ‘Why?’
“Why?” The question is our inspiration and our muse. “Why?” is the justification for our requirements. The key to identifying “What?” and “When?”, which lead to “How?” and “How Much?” But there is another use for “Why?” – communication of intent (with stakeholders and implementers). Requirements documents are artifacts, but they are also dynamic documents. By documenting “Why?” a requirement is a requirement, we make it easier for future readers to understand.
Posted in Business Analysis, Communication, Requirements, Software requirements specification, Writing
Tagged asking why, documenting intent, documenting justifications, documenting requirements, justifying requirements, managing data, requirements documentation, requirements intent, requirements justification
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New Web Advertising Network – Performancing Partners
If you sell products or services that Tyner Blain readers would want, or have your own blog and want higher quality ads check this out. Tyner Blain has joined a new ad network that should help us provide better ads for our readers. We’re really excited about the network, as the features seem to very effectively address the goals of both advertisers and publishers (bloggers). Regular readers – feel free to skip this one, see you tomorrow at our regularly scheduled time.
Meaningless Marketing Messages
Web Ink Now has a great article and analysis of the gobbledegook that passes for marketing messages. They’ve done an analysis of over 50,000 articles during the first nine months of 2006. Not only have they identified many of the most ridiculous terms, they’ve ranked them (or stack-ranked them, as a former employer would say) based on frequency.
Posted in Marketing
Tagged Communication, managing data, marketing message, targeted communication
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Don’t Prevent My Success
Finding the right balance when defining requirements can be hard. On one side, we want to avoid an inadequate system – “Don’t prevent my success by excluding features I might want”. On the other side, we want to avoid cost-overruns, delayed schedules, and negative-ROI features. This can be a hard line to walk.
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