Nexus Friday Favorites

Each Friday, we highlight some of our favorite articles, bundles or reviews that people have submitted to nexus. Check out this week’s Friday Favorites…

Software Development’s Evolution towards Product Design filed under product management and project management.

Very insightful and fun view of how software is made – and how that process has evolved over time. Great images, great way to explain to “other folks” how software gets created.

Yours, Mine and Ours filed under product management and interaction design.

Presents philosophy that there are four classes of software:

MeWare: The developer creates software. The developer uses it. Nobody else does.
ThemWare: The developer creates software. Other people use it. The developer does not.
UsWare: The developer creates software. Other people use it. The developer uses it too.
NobodyWare: The developer creates software. Nobody uses it.

Includes detailed real-world analysis of City Desk, a software package – applying the ideas

Agile Modeling Principles (v2) filed under agile development.

Identifies and defines over a dozen principles of agile modeling. Good introduction or reminder