You expect analysis to happen before design, and both to happen before implementation and testing. But how much should these activities be staggered? When a project is being run with monthly releases, it might seem logical to have each group working on a different release. For example, the test team […]
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Benefits of Agile Story Decomposition
When you plan a release, agile user stories, or classic use cases are the best sized pieces to use in the planning – from the perspective of your customers. Each user story can be further decomposed into a set of specifications, and those into development tasks. Development tasks are the […]
Software development / UX
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The First UX Project
Amy Hilman has written an outstanding article with the boxes and arrows staff about how to get that first UX (User Experience) project started at your company. Most companies don’t include user experience (UX) research as a key part of their product development process. But all companies will benefit from […]
Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / Software requirements specification
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Broken Requirements Ecosystem
There’s an interesting thread on Seilevel’s requirements forum about why developers don’t read the specs and how to fix this problem. Sometimes the developers throw away the requirements. And that’s bad. But it is a symptom. Something is broken at a higher level.
Agile Project: Ratings
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Nexus Friday Favorites
Each Friday, we highlight some of our favorite articles, bundles or reviews that people have submitted to nexus. Check out this week’s Friday Favorites…
Agile / Agile Project: Ratings / Software development
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Nexus Launches!
We’ve launched nexus today! We also fixed a big security hole and added the last of our early features.
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Nexus – Make a Wish For What You Want
Today we did a little refactoring of code, but otherwise took a quick break from development of nexus. If you’ve ever had writer’s block, or struggled with a tough programming or representational problem, you know that one way to make progress is to walk away and then walk back. We […]
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Nexus – Help Documents
Nexus Help Document System Operational Today we fixed a couple bugs, tweaked the UI a little, and implemented the functionality to support help documentation.
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Nexus – Minor Updates
In the announcement last week about the third release of the nexus alpha, we mentioned that we would focus on minor improvements, refactoring, and content this week. Here’s an update about what we did today – we pushed two updates to the site – one this morning, and one this […]