I’m taking a vacation thru the end of the year.  Hooray!  We’ve already written a series of short articles about migrating a development team to an agile process.  Those articles will appear over the next several days - we hope you enjoy them.
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Should we buy this application, or build it in house? How should we make that decision today?

Michael Shrivathsan just posted an excellent article on his experiences of the seven traits of successful product managers. Absolutely awesome article. Thanks Michael!

A look back at the best from a year ago.

Trying to unearth more trends in the 2006 salary data from the Pragmatic Marketing annual product management and marketing survey. In this article, we look at total compensation relative to the revenue of the managed products, the company size, and the company age. More fun with numbers.

Its easy for us to overdo almost anything. Kim Goodwin offers some good advice about how not to overdo it when using personas as part of our software development process.

Actor Hierarchies give us an overview of the people who will interact with the system. We can extend this model to provide a visual indication of how use cases are distributed through the organization. Further, we can leverage a hierarchy to show how use cases are rolled out to the users - a targeted communication for our stakeholders.

Amazon.com started by selling books. Their initial use case was “Sell books online.” The vision was always “Sell everything” - hence the name. But they started with a simple use case and evolved it.

Pragmatic Marketing released their 2006 product manager survey results. At first glance, there appears to be a huge disparity in compensation between male and female product managers. When we look in more detail, the evidence does not support that conclusion.

A look back at the best from a year ago.