We all know the story about the emperor’s new clothes. I’ve been thinking about prioritization and scheduling, and as far as I know, no one is promoting that we maximize value – they (and we) have been promoting that we do the most valuable stuff first. Doing the most valuable […]
Communication / Consulting / Design / ROI / Software development
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Measuring the ROI of Design
Measuring the return on investments in design may be the hardest ROI calculation you can do. It certainly is one of the rarest. To measure ROI, you have to be able to determine what would happen without the investment, and what happens with the investment. The difference between them is […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-07-28]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
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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…
Interface Design / UX
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Interface Design: Visualization Methods
Visualizing complex data can be very difficult. There are almost as many ways to visualize data as there are data to visualize. The Ralph Lengler and Martin J. Eppler at the Visual Literacy Organization collect many of them for us in a periodic table.
Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Use Cases
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Elastic Users, Actors, and Roles
In About Face 2.0, Alan Cooper describes the elastic user as an ill-defined user who’s characteristics change to suit the needs of the developer – sometimes an expert and sometimes a novice. However, some of the otherwise good techniques for managing actors and use cases exacerbate this problem instead of […]
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-07-21]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
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Nexus Friday Favorites
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Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / Software requirements specification
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Ignoring The Requirements, Watching The Discussion
Almost a month ago, we published an article titled Broken Requirements Ecosystem. That article built on a discussion thread at Seilevel. Since that time, the original thread has grown, and a new one has been spawned at the Catalyze site. In short, the question was asked on the Seilevel forum- […]