Yesterday, we identified the high priority goal for the third release of nexus to be supporting creation of bundles of articles. In this article, we will define the use cases we need to support.
Nexus – Third Alpha Release Prioritization
The second release of nexus went live today (build 127). It included the top features from our prioritized list published yesterday. This enabled the next use case from our first prioritized list of use cases – searching the articles. We also took this opportunity to refactor part of the user […]
Nexus – Next Round of Prioritization
The next build of nexus starts today as our agile project continues. Let us know what stuff you think is most important for this release, as part of our prioritization.
APR: Process Deviation?
Rolf presented a valid critique and some questions on our previous article announcing the launch of nexus. I started writing a long response, and realized it would work well as an article for analysis of our process over the last month. Here it is.
APR: Nexus Alpha Release Announcement
The alpha release of our site/product developed as an open agile project has just gone live! http://tynerblain.com/nexus/ is the home page. More stats and updates below.
APR: Information Architecture – Faceted Navigation
In our previous article in the series on the development of nexus, we discussed navigation and information architecture. We identified the challenge of filtering articles by category and by level of experience (beginner / expert), while also viewing the articles along a characteristic (most-viewed, highest-rated, etc). Between both url-creation and […]
APR: Information Architecture Challenge
We have an interesting information architecture challenge as part of our agile project. We have talked about browsing and searching articles organized both by category (product management, business analysis, etc) and by level of expertise (beginner, expert). We’re also rating and reviewing the articles, which introduces the ideas of “latest”, […]
APR: Naming Our Product
We’ve come up with a name for the site we’re creating as part of our agile project. Read on to see our rationale.
APR: Security Update
Earlier this week we iterated on our agile project to assure that we have sufficient application security to meet our user’s implicit requrements. Read on for updates on our implementation of the security constraints, and progress on the next feature to be implemented.