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Jun 14th was the first productcamp in Austin (and the second one anywhere).  It was a great event, and here’s the presentation that I did on how to define the strategic problems that drive our products.

No, not that kind of camp.

Product Camp

Netlife Research (company website in Norwegian) has done it again. Their 2008 Bad Usability Calendar is here and it is great. So great that it is hard to pick a favorite. Download it here. 2007 has more great examples.

[Note: This is a short post- just got back from the Velvet Revolver concert at Stubb's. Living in Austin rocks!]

Welcome Dr. Franke’s students in Analysis, Modeling and Design MCIS6310! Thanks again for inviting me to present to your class on requirements gathering and requirements management.
The presentation is available for download. You can get both the slides and the notes pages. The notes pages include additional content and links to articles for [...]

Requirements management software will not solve our requirements problems.
Jerry Aubin of Seilevel made this great point in his presentation this evening at the IEEE Computer Society, Austin / A-SPIN event. This was a great event, focusing on how to take requirements management “to the next level” - not just being good at it, but [...]

A classic debate. It comes up often. Unfortunately, it’s a source of confusion that causes many teams to shy away from staffing, creating, or managing any formal requirements processes. There’s a discussion on Seilevel’s forum where this has been brought up again, and it’s shaping up to be a fine grudge match here in Austin. We can’t let the other folks have all the fun, so we’ll chime in too.

We received a comment from Tom Humbarger at iRise on an earlier post, which led us to take a look at their site.
iRise provides a tool for rapid prototyping of web-based applications, and there’s an overview of the products available. They have iRise Studio which allows people to create interactive prototypes of web-based applications, [...]

Lauren Arbittier Davis recently started Alkali Marketing, a boutique marketing outsourcing company here in Austin.  I’ve personally worked with Lauren over much of the past decade, and couldn’t be more excited about her company!  When Tyner Blain is ready to build awareness (beyond our current viral approach), Alkali is who we’ll call.  In addition to [...]

Jerry Aubin and Joe Shideler of Seilevel will be giving their presentation, Beyond the System Shall - A Journey from Good to Great Requirements. Although this meeting is sponsored by the Austin chapter of IEEE, it is open to the public.
[Update: The meeting is from 6:30-9:00pm on Wednesday 15 February 2006]
If you were paying [...]