Nexus – More Progress on Implementation

under the hood

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend (or a great weekend even if not a holiday where you are). The implementation is moving forward for the bundles. The pending release now allows me to add, delete, re-order and edit items within a given bundle. The re-ordering is not good – you have to manually change the “position” of each item. While functional, this isn’t good enough to release – so I will be refactoring this tomorrow.

Progress Update

The following items (from our previous update) have a first implementation complete:

  • Each bundle is created by an individual (Paul the program manager).
  • Each bundle has a subject and description (”Intro to Use Cases” and “A tutorial that is designed…”).
  • Each bundle is composed of multiple items, and the items have an order (1,2,3,…).
  • Each item is created by an individual.
  • Bundles may allow for collaboration (multiple people submitting / editing items).
  • Bundles have categories and experience levels (”Testing,…” and “Beginner”).

The following items have not yet been implemented:

  • Each item can point to / represent / contain a single article, or it can be “empty”.
  • Bundles can be rated and reviewed by users.
  • Bundles may allow for collaboration (multiple people submitting / editing items).

How You Can Help

Bundles will demonstrate their power by providing vetted collections of articles on a single topic. You can help by starting to populate nexus with articles that you might want to combine into bundles. Or you can help by submitting articles about use cases – anything to do with use cases. The first bundle that I am going to create will be a “how to write use cases” bundle. Many of the articles that I believe I will include are articles that I’ve written over the last 18 months. I would love it if I could include other articles by other authors.

So – our team goal is to get a critical mass of articles about use cases – how to write them, how to use them, manage them, whatever. Submit some articles today. If you only submit one, that still helps a lot.

  • Scott Sehlhorst

    Scott Sehlhorst is a product management and strategy consultant with over 30 years of experience in engineering, software development, and business. Scott founded Tyner Blain in 2005 to focus on helping companies, teams, and product managers build better products. Follow him on LinkedIn, and connect to see how Scott can help your organization.

2 thoughts on “Nexus – More Progress on Implementation

  1. Hi Mukesh, thanks very much for asking. There are some pretty good tutorials on the help page at nexus – http://tynerblain.com/nexus/help

    I would suggest looking at “How do I submit an article?” and “Why can’t I submit an article?”

    If those two don’t answer your questions – please let me know.

    Thanks again

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