We create cost estimates at many times in a project. From budgetary estimates at the start of a project all the way to PERT estimates of tasks in a work breakdown structure. Creating a budgetary estimate seems impossible – you have to make many assumptions, your estimates are based on […]
Success Stories
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Software Product Success Stories
Most of us have seen those blog-tagging memes – “Tell us three things people don’t know about you” or “What did you have for breakfast?” We’re starting a useful one today – How I helped make a successful product! Read on to see our success story, and find out who […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-09-29]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Book Reviews / Reviews
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Outside-In Software Development: First Look
A first look at Outside-in Software Development, available tomorrow (or pre-order tonight on Amazon.com). At the time of this writing, the book is #29 on the Hot New Releases list – and you can get it for just over a third off the price if you pre-order now. Take a […]
Business Analysis / Business Process Modeling / Business Rules / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Use Cases
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Global Processes and Business Rules
We’ve written before about the importance of separating rules from requirements, particularly in use cases. We wrote that with the goal in mind of reducing the costs of system maintenance. Low-level rules like decision, calculation and inference rules tend to change frequently – and independently of other requirements. So a […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-09-22]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Project Management / Requirements
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Why Your Project Plan Will Fail
You’ve written a project plan. Your team is ready to start. Here’s the bad news – you’re going to fail. But why? How can you avoid failure?
Marketing
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Maximize Your Word of Mouth Marketing
It isn’t just about finding customers anymore. You have to build fans. Take a look at the dynamics of word of mouth marketing and how they can cause your product to succeed. This article includes tips and references for helping you move through each stage in the cycle of fans, […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-09-15]
A look back at the best from a year ago.