Is your product successful because you were lucky, or because you were methodical and intentional? Do you want to build a plan where you are dependent on good fortune, or do you want to make your own “luck?” Both approaches work, but only one makes sense as an intention. Slide […]
Flashback
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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [May17]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Communication / Consulting / Design / Outsourcing / Software development / Testing
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Making Offshore Design Work
When companies first start off-shoring, they usually send the “low level” implementation work overseas first, to work out the process kinks and manage risk. Over time, your valued, domain-aware developers will perceive a lack of career opportunities with this limited role. Naturally, you will want to consider sending design work […]
Product Management
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Your Problem Statement is The Problem
Problems are the reason why we create software. We solve problems. For the business. A “Goal” is an acknowledgment that you are going to try and address the problem. One mistake people commonly make is to describe problem manifestations and not problems. Read on to see the difference.
Flashback
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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [May10]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Interviews / Product Management
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Interview with Woopra’s John Pozadzides
Woopra is a new hot web-analytics product in beta release. There is a lot of discussion around the differences between product management in startups and product management in enterprise companies. In this article, we take a look at the product management around Woopra, and gain a little insight into how […]
Communication / Consulting / Outsourcing / Software development / Testing
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Making Offshore Development Work
Economic pressures are driving most companies in high-developer-salary markets to explore using offshore development teams as part of their approach to developing software. Developing software with a global team presents new challenges as well as new benefits. If you do it right, you can have a more cost-effective team. If […]
Flashback
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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [May 3]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Austin TX / Product Management
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ProductCamp Austin 2008
No, not that kind of camp. Product Camp