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Freemium Business Model

Posted on: February 24, 2009March 2, 2009

Ever scratch your head and wonder why you can use your favorite application for free? How can a business actually make money (and stay in business) when they offer their product for free? This article looks at the freemium business model, to see when it makes sense for a company […]

Agile / Ishikawa Diagram / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / Testing

Failure To Launch (Your Product)

Posted on: February 19, 2009

Jump forward in time to the day of your next big product launch (first release, new features, new market segment, etc). And your site/application crashes due to the “unexpected” demand. All you can do now is look for a bucket of water to put out the fire. What could you […]

Agile / Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / User Stories

Agile Non-Functional Requirements

Posted on: February 10, 2009

Just because your requirement is not a user story does not mean you have to throw it out when planning your next sprint. See one way (that is working) for managing non-functional requirements with an agile team.

Agile / Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / User Stories

User Stories and Use Cases

Posted on: February 2, 2009

User Stories are one of the key agile artifacts for helping implementation teams deliver the most important capabilities first. They differ from use cases in some important ways, but share more commonalities than you might think.

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