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.
Product Management
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Gender Bias in 2008 Product Manager Salary Data
Pragmatic Marketing’s 2008 Product Management and Marketing Survey Results – Part 2 This article continues our analysis of Pragmatic Marketing’s survey data – this time looking at the data for signs of gender inequality.
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2008 Pragmatic Marketing Survey Results: Part 1
Pragmatic Marketing’s Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey Results – 2008 We’ve started our analysis of the over 1000 responses to this year’s survey. Thanks again to Pragmatic Marketing for allowing people in the community to analyze the data. Let’s dive in…
Agile / Communication / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Software development
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Stakeholders in a Barrel
There’s really only one way to travel down a waterfall – in a barrel. A lot of people died this way, but some survived. Software projects have been predominantly waterfall projects since the start of software projects. And stakeholders rode down those projects, basically in a barrel. The people riding […]
Business Analysis / Product Management
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Inspired By Your Customers
Should your products be designed by your customers, or inspired by your customers?
Agile / Product Management / Software development
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ProductCamp Austin Winter 2009
The second productcamp for Austin is just around the corner! Are you going to be there? You should.
Agile / Business Analysis / Business Rules / Communication / Consulting / Product Management / Software development
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Simple Agile Model Example
A picture is worth a thousand words. Agile values working software over comprehensive documentation, and it values customer collaboration over contract negotiation. With that in mind, how much is a picture of a model worth? Check out a simple example, how it helped, and what we didn’t do.
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Keeping up With Change
How quickly is your market changing? Bet it’s faster than you thought.
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Satisficing Sprints
Satisficing probably makes more sense than perfecting your product. Can? Open. Worms? Everywhere. Are we really saying “don’t make it perfect?” Yup.