A picture is worth a thousand words. A prototype is worth a thousand lines of code. Two key elements of product management – and of agile development are elicitation and feedback. Low fidelity artifacts can significantly improve both. Polished, codified prototypes can create problems that prevent you from getting the benefits of communication.
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Posted in Agile, Business Analysis, Business Rules, Interaction design, Interface Design, Product Management, Requirements, Requirements gathering, Software development, UX, Uncategorized
Tagged agile interaction, Communication, process prototyping, prototypes, prototyping, uml as prototype
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Get an Edge With Visual Communication
Having trouble working through complex concepts? Struggling to get a “simple” message across? As human beings, we are all pre-wired to absorb visual communication. You should take advantage of that to give yourself an edge when it comes to communicating.
Posted in Communication, Presentation, Writing
Tagged Communication, dan roam, guy kawasaki, visual communication
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Making Offshore Development Work
Economic pressures are driving most companies in high-developer-salary markets to explore using offshore development teams as part of their approach to developing software. Developing software with a global team presents new challenges as well as new benefits. If you do it right, you can have a more cost-effective team. If you do it wrong, you can have a disaster.
Meaningless Marketing Messages
Web Ink Now has a great article and analysis of the gobbledegook that passes for marketing messages. They’ve done an analysis of over 50,000 articles during the first nine months of 2006. Not only have they identified many of the most ridiculous terms, they’ve ranked them (or stack-ranked them, as a former employer would say) based on frequency.
Posted in Marketing
Tagged Communication, managing data, marketing message, targeted communication
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Targeted Communication – Status Reporting
We’ve posted tips about targeted communication – tailoring the message for the audience. Anthony Mersino has an excellent post from January of this year about how to write a good status report. He provides seven excellent guidelines for status reporting, and all of them around providing the message our audience cares about, as effectively as possible.
Four Application Development Outsourcing Models
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Posted in Consulting, Outsourcing, Product Management, Software development
Tagged application development outsourcing, benefits of outsourcing, Communication, development, effects of outsourcing, managing data, MRD, Outsourcing, outsourcing software development, PRD, software development process, software outsourcing, software process, software requirements process
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Top Five Ways To Be A Better Listener
topsyWidgetPreload({ “url”: “http%3A%2F%2Ftynerblain.com%2Fblog%2F2006%2F01%2F27%2Ftop-five-ways-to-be-a-better-listener%2F”, “style”: “big”, “title”: “Top Five Ways To Be A Better Listener” }); Effective listening skills yield great requirements The better you are at listening, the more people will want to tell you. If you’ve ever watched The Actor’s Studio, you’ve heard over and over that the most important skill in acting is [...]
Posted in Communication, Consulting
Tagged active listening skills, better listener, Communication, effective listening skills, gathering requirements, good listening skills, how to be a better listener, interviewing, listening, listening skills, managing data, reflective listening skills, Requirements gathering, requirements management
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Communicating a delivery schedule with use cases
topsyWidgetPreload({ “url”: “http%3A%2F%2Ftynerblain.com%2Fblog%2F2005%2F12%2F22%2Fcommunicating-a-delivery-schedule-with-use-cases%2F”, “style”: “big”, “title”: “Communicating a delivery schedule with use cases” }); Use cases are a great tool for establishing the scope of a project. They provide a framework for defining what needs to be implemented (if it doesn’t support a use case, we don’t need to implement it). They also set expectations [...]
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