The reason we write is so that someone can read it in the future. Duh. When we’re writing requirements documents, or documenting processes, how often do we stop and think about who will be reading our documents? We need to make sure our writing will be easy to read for our audience.
Product Management
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Superhero Product Managers
Product managers are the leaders in organizations that lead by unfluence, adapt to changing circumstances, understand domains and markets, and communicate effectively with executives, customers, and development. They set scope, understand value, prioritize and define direction. They leap tall buildings in a single bound…
Software development / Testing
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Rinse, Lather, Repeat – 10 Reasons to Repeat Tests
Why run a test more than once? If it passed the first time, we don’t need to run it again – or do we? James Bach provides ten good reasons to run the same test more than once.
Agile / Business Analysis / Process Improvement / Project Management / Requirements gathering
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Burndown Bullied Into Business Analysis
Burndown is a technique used in Scrum projects for tracking the progress within or across sprints. It is an exciting way to track how a team is progressing against a deadline – and we can apply it to any form of project-status. In this article, we will apply it to […]
Business Analysis / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Estimating the Effort of Documenting an As-Is Process
Estimating the gathering of requirements is hard. Not as hard as scheduling innovation, but easier than estimating implementation effort. One step in gathering requirements is often the documentation of the “as-is” process – how things exist today. We provide a framework for building those estimates – making the job a little bit easier.
Prioritization / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Vote Early And Often – Getting Value From Brainstorming
Brainstorming can be a simultaneously fun and effective technique for identifying software features or requirements. We’ve written previously about how to facilitate a brainstorming session and how to leverage the results. Timothy Johnson shares another way to use the results effectively. His way is more fun, and maybe just as effective.
Business Process Modeling
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Free BPMN Stencils for Visio 2003 and Visio 2002
In support of our series of BPMN Tutorial posts, we’ve created a series of Visio 2003 stencils (*.vss) and a template (BPMN_Template.vst) of BPMN symbols. Download this free resource today courtesy of Tyner Blain!
Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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Cost Reduction Potential
All process improvements are not created equal. How should we select which processes (or process steps) to improve? How do we approach this for a really large migration project? Start with understanding the potential for improvement and then narrow it down from there.
Design / Requirements gathering / Usability / UX
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Flesh Out Those Wireframes
Stephen Turbek, at Boxes and Arrows, tells us how to get better results from our wireframes. Wireframe prototyping can provide feedback early in the design cycle, reducing costs and improving the quality of the final software. By putting a little flesh on the bone, we can get even better results.