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Kano Analysis / Marketing / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models

Minimum Market Acceptance

Posted on: March 31, 2010April 1, 2010

April Dunford just presented Startup Marketing 101 at DemoCamp Toronto. Great ideas from the ‘marketing and your startup’ point of view. I’ve often said that product managers and product marketers care about much of the same market data, they just do different things with it. The idea of minimal feature […]

Austin TX / Organizations / Product Management / ProductCamp

ProductCamp Austin Spring 2010

Posted on: March 25, 2010

ProductCamp Austin is here again! The Spring 2010 session is this Saturday, 27 March 2010 at the AT&T Conference Center on the UT campus in downtown Austin. Make sure and say hi when you’re there!

Product Management / Slightly off-topic

Great Product Manager Questions

Posted on: March 16, 2010

The Laudi Group and Red Canary organized and shared a great set of questions for product managers and answers from a panel of product management leaders. Steve Johnson, another leader in our space shared his answers to the same questions, and in this article, I share mine.

Business Analysis / Requirements / Requirements gathering

Business Goals and Requirements

Posted on: March 11, 2010

One of my colleagues got into a debate with one of his colleagues about the differences between goals and requirements. His opponent fired the following salvo: “[That] is not a business requirement in any company of the world…” What you call your requirements is less important than how you communicate […]

Interaction design / Product Management / Requirements / ROI / Software development / User Stories / UX

Measuring Great Design – Mad Libs Input Form

Posted on: March 1, 2010

I came across a really interesting article LukeW.com, showing how making changes to the way an input form on a website increased interaction by 25 to 40%. The changes reflect the value of thinking outside-in, investing in user experience, and performance measurement. Bonus: the idea is cool.

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