When we’re part of a team creating software for the enterprise – an internally focused, IT initiative, we usually don’t think about product managers. Business analysts, systems analysts, and architects (of all varieties) are all commonplace. But not product managers. Product managers bring a perspective and a strategic focus that […]
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User Adoption ROI
You want your software to be used, not to sit on the shelf. You can’t achieve the ROI of your software if people don’t use it. And you can’t achieve the ROI of your software by forcing people to use it either. Some will fail to achieve the benefits, and […]
Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Test Automation / Testing / UX
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You Are Creating Bugs In Your Software
No matter how good your quality process is, you are introducing bugs. This article reviews the places where bugs are introduced in the software development process (from stakeholders to users), and reviews ways to address those bugs.
Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Software development / Testing
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Why You Should Test Your Requirements
We’ve written before about several characteristics of well written requirements, and one of those characteristics is testability. Ahamad has written an list of 10 tests of requirements, with an emphasis on assessing the testability of the requirements. The testability of the requirement determines if the resultant product can be tested […]
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Global Actor Hierarchies and Personas
We use actor hierarchies to organize the different users of a system. Different people play different roles, and thus do different jobs. We use different actors to identify and organize those people. When deploying a system globally, we usually discover people that do the same jobs, but do them differently. […]
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2007 Product Manager Salary Survey – More Analysis
We re-analyzed some of our earlier numbers with the final data, including compensation by region and state. We also looked at some other factors, like who you report to, how large your company is, and if your company is public or private.
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2007 Product Manager Survey – Technical Product Managers
Pragmatic Marketing’s 2007 survey of product managers includes questions that identify product managers as having technical backgrounds. Product management involves many responsibilities that require some level of technical acumen. In this article, we look at the survey responses to see if the degree of technical skill has a correlation with […]
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2007 Product Manager Survey – Management Salaries
We wrote previously about some of the salary data from Pragmatic Marketing’s 2007 Product Manager survey data. Since that time, we’ve had the opportunity to analyze the complete data set. One of our readers asked if we could crunch the numbers for more senior positions – directors and executives – […]
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Requirements for Enterprise Architecture: First Look
Traditional requirements happen after a multi-system architecture has been defined. But what about the requirements that feed into that architecture? The requirements that drive the enterprise architecture decisions in the first place? We haven’t talked about those before.