Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-12-1]

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A look back at the best from a year ago.

Foundation Series: JAD Sessions

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JAD is an acronym that stands for Joint Application Design. JAD sessions are collaborative meetings where the customers meet with developers to determine what the product needs to be or do.

Subordinate and Superordinate Use Cases

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Use Cases can be built up by combining other use cases. When a use case is made up of other use cases, the component use cases are known as subordinate use cases. The “parent” use case is referred to as the superordinate use case. This is known as composition. See an example of how composition works for use cases.

Skip the Requirements, Empower the Developers

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Enough of the debates about requirements and what we call them. Why don’t we just hire great developers and empower them to work directly with the customers?

  • Scott Sehlhorst

    Scott Sehlhorst is a product management and strategy consultant with over 30 years of experience in engineering, software development, and business. Scott founded Tyner Blain in 2005 to focus on helping companies, teams, and product managers build better products. Follow him on LinkedIn, and connect to see how Scott can help your organization.

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