Do you recognize this early logo from Amazon.com? Future Now has a great article detailing how Amazon evolved their “add to shopping cart” implementation. From reviewing this summary of the evolution of one feature, we can see that Amazon decided there was value in reinvention. The improved the way their […]
Ask A Good Product Manager
Ask A Good Product Manager is a new blog just launched by Jeff Lash, who also authors How To Be A Good Product Manager, one of our favorite blogs.
Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Feb 23]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
C.R.A.C.K. Users Are Addictive
Barry Boehm, inventor of the spiral model of software development, may also be the originator of the CRACK acronym for the type of users we want on our projects. When defining (and executing on) projects, we don’t just want CRACK users, we want CRACK stakeholders. And we want them to […]
Cockburn Affirms: Use Cases Rule for Agile!
We’ve been promoting use cases as the right way to approach agile requirements, and in a recent article, Alistair Cockburn stresses the importance of use cases. Over the last three years, he has found that teams that avoid use cases consistently run into the same three problems. We defer, of […]
Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Feb 16]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Specializing Generalists and the Politics of Agile
A successful agile team requires someone on the team to act as the voice of the customer, someone to lead the developers, someone to lead quality assurance, and someone to organize, coordinate, and assure execution. For an agile team to succeed in an enterprise ripe with political resistance to agile, […]
The NICE Way To Think About Requirements
Too much information about requirements or too little? Too much documentation or too little? Use the NICE framework to get it just right.
Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Feb 9]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.